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BY-LAWS OF THE TRUSTEES 



OENKRAIv ACTS 



THE UNITED STATES AND NEW HAMPSHIRE, 

Relating to the Agricitltural College, with Amendments 
AND Additions Thereto. 



I 862-1 893 




PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 

A COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 



CONCORD, N. H.: 

REPUIiLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, UAILUOAD SQUARE. 
1893. 



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I-:\1M. A NATION 



'/'(' the JSoard of Trustees of the Ncio Ha7iipshire Colk^c of 
Agnailture and the Mechanic Arts : 
In preparing the by-Jft-ws of the College, we.hav 
fully examined the books qf the trustees, and made a record 
of all votes passed by the Board, and have classified thqm 
according to their respective subjects. All votes having- a 
bearing upon the future management of the College' have 
been made a part of the by-laws, so that all precedents have 
been followed as far as consistent. New by-laws for the 
College have been added, for which there seemed to be a de- 
mand, caused by the severing of its relation with Dartmouth 
College and its removal to Durham. We have also com- 
piled the Acts of Congress and the Laws of New Hampshire 
and such decisions of the Treasury and Post-Office 13epart- 
ments as we have been able to obtain, bearing upcm the Col- 
lifei^er'flniT'BxplrimejTJt'^jaobn to the present date. We have 
•'flso' mclwSed* a CfJpj hi *the Benjamin Thompson will and 
^the.lijt^i Qf^.th,Q, coUege.s. and experunent stations in the 
•ljFlj-ijed;^1:iiie^..^;We 'liiiiit this hand-book of by-laws and 
"compilation of the laws will be of value, and meet the ap- 
proval of the Trustees, and all interested in the welfare of 

the Collei:;c. 

LUCIEN THOMPSON. 

JOSEPH KIDDER. 
ALP.ERT DeMERITT, 

Owi////ttf( on By-Laws. 



^ ^ BY-LAWS ^. ^^(^ 

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OF THE 

r^ BOARD OF TRUSTEES 



NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND THE 
MECHANIC ARTS. 



Article I. — Meetings of the Board. 

Section i. There shall be four stated meetings of the Board 
at Durham in each year, viz., the second Wednesday in 
January, April, and October, and on the day preceding 
Commencement Day, in June, at 1 1 o'clock in the forenoon, 
and the stated meeting in June shall be the annual meet- 
ing. Written notice of all meetings shall be given by the 
Secretary to each member of the Board at least fourteen days 
previous to the day of said meetings. In case of omission to 
notify the stated meetings as aforesaid, the same shall not 
be lost, but shall be adjourned for the transaction of busi- 
ness until the required notice thereof shall be given. At the 
stated meetings it shall be in order to act on any subject 
within the power of the Corporation, and at all special meet- 
ings the subjects to be acted upon shall be specified in the 
notices of such meetings. 

Special Meetings. 

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the President of the Board 
to call a special meeting of the Board of Trustees whenever in 
his view or that of any four of the Trustees it shall be deemed 



expedient. If, from any cause, such meeting shall not be so 
called by the President of the Board within six days, then 
any four of the Trustees may call the same, and the same 
notice shall be given of special meetings as of stated meet- 
ings. 

Article II. — Order of Business. 

Sectkjn I. The business of each meeting shall be con- 
ducted in the following order : 

1. Calling the roll of members. 

2. Reading and approval of minutes of last meeting. 

3. Election of ofticers. 

4. Report of President and communications from Faculty. 

5. Reports of committees. 

6. Communications, petitions, and memorials. 

7. Unfinished business. 

8. New business. 

Article III. — Rules of Derate. 

Section i. In the discussion and disposal of business, 
the Board shall be governed by the parliamentary rules and 
usages usually governing deliberative bodies. 

Sec. 2. Every resolution offered shall be reduced to writ- 
ing before it shall be finally acted upon. 

Article l\. — Officers of the Board, etc. 

Section i. The Board shall at their annual meeting elect 
by ballot, by major vote of those present and voting, a Pres- 
ident of the Board, Secretary, and five standing committees, 
said committees to consist of members of the Board only, to 
wit, — an Executive Committee, a Committee known as the 
Board of Control, a Finance Committee, a Committee on 
Real Estate, and a Committee on Curriculum. 

Sec. 2. Special Committees may be chosen from time to 
time as the Board may deem expedient. 



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Sec. 3. All officers and standing committees shall be con- 
tinued in their respective offices until others are chosen and 
qualified in their stead. 

Article V. — Duties of Officers. 

Section i. The officers of this Board are charged with 
the duties, and entitled to the rights and privileges, which 
belong, by general consent and parliamentary custom, to their 
respective offices. 

Duties of the President of the Board. 

Sec. 2. Any member of the Board of Trustees, except the 
President of the College, shall be eligible to the office of 
President of the Board. The President of the Board shall 
call all meetings of the Trustees, and send a copy of the call 
to the Secretary. He shall preside at all meetings of the 
Board. He shall annually file the report of the Trustees 
with the Secretary of State, in accordance with the provisions 
of chapter 11, section 9, of the Public Statutes of New 
Hampshire (said report to be made up to July i, each year). 
He shall have the custody of the bond of the Treasurer, and 
be responsible foi the safe keeping of the same. 

Duties of Secretary. 

Sec. 3. The Secretary shall be sworn to faithfully perform 
the duties of his office, and shall attend all meetings of the 
Board of Trustees, and shall keep a full and accurate record, 
in a suitable book provided for the purpose, of all votes and 
acts of the Trustees. He shall record all calls for meetings 
of the Board, and notify all members of said meetings. He 
shall notify all committees of their appointment, and furnish 
a copy of all votes delegating power to said committees. 

The Secretary shall keep a record, in a separate book, of 
the names of all the Trustees, the date of their appointment, 
form of appointment, expiration of term of office, the Coun- 



cillor District in which they reside, the political party to 
which they belong, and their occupation. He shall furnish 
all officers of the College with a copy of any votes passed by 
the Board of Trustees relating to their duties. He shall 
keep a separate book in which shall be kept a record of all 
votes relating to special committees, and a record of all 
reports made by said committees to the Board. He shall 
keep a separate record of all donations to the Institution ; 
and all conditions and votes relating thereto shall be 
recorded in a book provided for that purpose. 

Duties of Treasurer. 

Sec. 4. The Treasurer shall give bonds to the acceptance 
of the Trustees for the faithful performance of his duties, 
and said bond shall be deposited with the President 
of the Board, after being recorded by the secretary. He 
shall receive all money and securities belonging to the Col- 
lege, all dividends and interest accruing to the College, and 
account for the same, and pay all bills that have been en- 
dorsed as approved by the President of the College, except 
the salary and bills contracted by the President of the College 
which shall be approved by the President of the Board of 
Trustees. He shall have a descriptive list of all bonds, 
stocks, mortgages, and other evidences of debt to the College 
recorded in the office of the state treasurer. He is author- 
ized to endorse all checks and drafts in favor of the College. 
He shall be empowered to hire money on recommendation 
of the Finance Committee, subject to the approval of the 
Board of Trustees. He shall keep a separate account of all 
funds in his hands for a specified purpose. 

The Treasurer of the Board of Trustees is hereby desig- 
nated and appointed to receive and have the custody of the 
money appropriated from time to time by the congress of the 
United States, and any and all money appropriated or do- 
nated at any time for the purpose of the Experiment Station, 



and he shall keep all such money in a separate fund account, 
and shall pay the same out upon warrants signed by the 
President of the College and countersigned by the Director of 
the Experiment Station, but no money shall be drawn or 
used for any purpose except for the^work and needs of the 
Experiment Station. He shall, in his annual report, render 
a full and complete account of all money received and paid 
out, investment of funds and money hired. He shall file 
and preserve all vouchers, receipts, correspondence, or other 
papers relating to his office. 

Duties of Purchasing Agent. 

Sec. 5. The Board, at any stated meeting, may elect a 
Purchasing Agent who shall hold office, subject to removal 
at the pleasure of the Board. 

He shall make all purchases of ever}^ description for the 
College and Experiment Station and farm. No purchases 
shall be made by the said Purchasing Agent except on the 
written requisition from the heads of the departments, or 
such as may be ordered by the Board of Trustees, said 
requisitions to be countersigned by the President of the Col- 
lege, before the purchase is made, and these requisitions are 
to be, by him, numbered, filed, and duly recorded in a book 
kept for the purpose. These requisitions when properly 
signed shall be construed to be, and shall be, his order for 
the purchases to be made. Bills for goods ordered by the 
Purchasing Agent if approved, first by the head of the depart- 
ment where the goods are used, second by the Purchasing 
Agent, and third by the President of the College, shall be 
paid by the Treasurer. 

All bills for purchases for the Experiment Station and 
farm shall be made out in every case against the New 
Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, and all others 
against the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the 
Mechanic Arts. 



Article VI. — General Duties of Committees. 

Section i. Every Standing Committee shall choose a Sec- 
retary who shall record all votes passed in the Board of Trus- 
tees bearing upon the work of said committee, with time 
and place of meeting at which such vote was passed, so indi- 
cated that it could be readily found by reference to the book 
of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees. They shall keep 
an accurate record of all proceedings in suitable books, which 
shall be filed in the office of the Board at Durham for safe 
keeping and open to the examination at all times of any 
member of the Board o'f Trustees. 

Sec. 2. Special Committees may conform to the require- 
ments of the preceding section, or file a written report of 
their proceedings with the Secretary of the Board of Trus- 
tees. 

Sec. 3. No Committee shall have power to carry out any 
action on their own motion (except in cases specified in these 
By-Laws) until they shall have reported to the Board and 
gained its consent to the action proposed. 

Executive Committee. 

Sec. 4. This Committee shall consist of three members 
of which the President of the College shall be one. Local 
improvements in connection with the college are placed in 
charge of this Committee. 

They shall have charge of water-works, supply of water, 
including reservoir, all the water pipes, connections to all 
buildings for fire purposes and water supply, and heating 
and lighting of premises and buildings including electricity 
and gas. 

They shall have authority to make all arrangements on 
account of the College with the town or private citizens for 
the use of water, gas, or electricity. They shall also have 
charge of all matters pertaining to heating, lighting, venti- 
lation, and the distribution of power from the Station ; 



the care of all machinery connected with the Power Station, 
and the shops, which shall include the ordering of what- 
ever is required to render those things under their care 
beneficial to the College. They shall have charge of all 
matters pertaining to the proper draining of the College 
buildings, including a proper system of sewerage when the 
same becomes necessary. All contracts of whatever nature 
binding upon the College as bearing on future relations of the 
College with any outside party, either citizen, corporation, or 
town, shall be subject to the approval of the Trustees. They 
shall keep a record of all their proceedings which shall be 
kept at the office of the Board in Durham, open at all times 
to the inspection of the Trustees, and they •shall report to the 
Board at their annual meeting. 

Board of Control. 

Sec. 5. I. The experimental work of the Station shall 
be under the immediate control of five trustees, of which 
number the President of the College shall be one, and known 
as the Board of Control. 

2. The Board of Control may adopt such rules of organiza- 
tion as they may deem necessary, which shall not be in conflict 
with the laws under which the department is organized, or 
with such regulations as the Trustees may from time to time 
prescribe. 

3. The Trustees shall elect a Director whose duties shall 
be, under the direction of the President of the College, to 
keep a complete record of the work of the Station, to carry 
on the correspondence, supervise the editing and printing of 
all bulletins and reports, and shall do all other work necesr 
sary to be done about the business of such Station, which 
may be required of him by the Trustees or President of the 
College. 

4. This Board shall plan and arrange the methods by 
which investigations shall be pursued and experiments 



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conducted. They shall instruct the director to divide the 
work of the Station, and assign the parts thereof to such 
persons as may be best fitted by experience and ability to 
carry forward such work. They shall cause to be kept 
accurate detailed accounts of all experimental work, and 
all circumstances surrounding the experiments, which can 
in any way affect them, and such results as the facts show 
shall be worked out and put in shape for proper reports, 
to be published from time to time as required by the act 
of congress of March 2, 1887. 

5. This Board shall require the Director to lay before 
the Trustees at each stated meeting of the Trustees a plan 
of such experiments as may seem desirable to undertake, 
also report the probable expense of the same, and shall 
designate such instruments, lands, help, and other require- 
ments as they need to successfully carry out the proposed 
work. 

6. In case any professor of the College shall be em- 
ployed in the work of the Experiment Station, this Board 
shall estimate the value of his services while so employed, 
such estimate to be made upon the basis of his regular salary 
as such professor, and whatever sum shall be found to be 
proper compensation for such services, such sum shall be 
paid from the Experiment Station fund. 

7. This Board shall recommend to the Trustees, the 
appointment of all officers and regular assistants employed 
upon the work of the Station or farm. They shall employ 
all temporary assistants, laborers, janitors, and workmen, who 
shall be paid from a fund appropriated for that purpose, and 
report to the Trustees at each stated meeting. 

8. They shall regulate the price , paid to students for any 
labor performed on the farm or at the Experiment Station. 

9. They shall cause to be kept in proper books for the 
purpose, a regular account of all money received and dis- 
bursed, the receipts from and expenditures for and on 
account of the Experiment Station and farm, or for the con- 



struction of buildings, or improvement of the premises, and 
in the farming and gardening operations. These accounts 
shall be so kept as to show, as near as practicable, the cost 
of carrying on the farm or garden and the quantity and value 
of the products of the same. 

Duties of Finance Committee. 

Sec. 6. This Committee shall consist of three members, 
of which the President of the College shall be one. They shall 
have special care of the finances of the College, and all 
matters relating to appropriations of funds shall be referred 
to them for examination, and they shall report on same to 
the Board of Trustees, and recommend at any time such 
measures as they deem for the best interests of the College. 
All matters relating to salaries of employes, including the 
faculty, shall be referred to the Finance Committee, who shall 
report on same to the board, and they shall carry out the votes 
of the Board in regard to salaries, and keep a separate rec- 
ord of the employment of all officers and employe's of the 
College, the date when hired, the length of time, the amount 
of salary, and the duties to be performed. 

They shall carefully audit the accounts of the Treasurer, 
and of all committees or employe's of the College who have 
the handling of any of the College funds, and report to the 
board annually. They shall annually examine the condition 
of the Benjamin Thompson trust fund as kept by the state 
treasurer. They shall have charge of the investments of the 
College funds, and may change the form of investment of said 
funds, as may be necessary, into such securities as trustees 
are allowed to make under the laws of New Hampshire, 
and in compliance with any laws of the United States that 
may govern the same, and subject to the approval of the 
Board of Trustees. Any money ordered to be hired by vote 
of the Board shall be hired by the Treasurer, with their ap- 
proval. They shall annually, in June, cause to be made an 



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appraisal of all the property of the College and record the 
same in detail in a book of inventory, and a summary of the 
same shall be published in the annual report. 

CoMMirrEE ON Real Estate. 

Sec. 7. This Committee shall consist of three members, 
of which the President of the College shall be one. The Com- 
mittee shall have full power to buy, sell, rent, or lease any 
real estate belonging to the College, which the Trustees, at 
any meeting may order to be bought, sold, rented, or leased, 
and shall sign deeds, leases, or contracts, regarding real es- 
tate in the name of the College when so ordered by the 
Board at any legal meeting. They shall keep a record of 
all such votes. They shall also record all transactions in real 
estate made by the College, and give full descriptions of the 
same ; and all buildings owned by the College shall be kept 
insured in reliable companies by the said Committee on Real 
Estate, subject to alterations at any time by vote of the 
Board of Trustees. All records of the Committee shall be 
tiled in the office of the Board at Durham for safe keeping 
and examination. They shall fix prices of rent for all buildings, 
rooms, or halls owned by the College which may be rented, 
collect the rent for the same, and turn it over to the treas- 
urer with an itemized statement of amounts received, on what 
property collected, and the price for which the property 
was leased or rented. They may discharge, or authorize 
the discharge of, mortgages that are cancelled, and the release 
of all contracts and liens requiring release upon payment. 

Committee on Curriculum. 

Sec. 8. This Committee shall consist of three members of 
which the President of the College shall be one. They shall 
have general oversight of the instruction of the college, and 
consider and recommend improved methods of instruction, 
nominate professors and instructors to vacant chairs, or to 



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chairs which may be estabhshed, and have charge of the 
general subject of scholarships and fellowships, and all mat- 
ters connected with the curriculum. They shall recommend 
the names of those entitled to degrees under Article 19 of 
these By-Laws. 

They shall have charge of the Library, Laboratories, Mu- 
seums, and Art Collections, and suggest plans for the im- 
provement of the working apparatus of the college. 

They shall recommend such measures as will tend to im- 
prove the relations of the college to the state, the educa- 
tional institutions of the state, churches of the state, so far as 
they relate to the college, the town of Durham, and, if occa- 
sion offers, to the legislature. 

They shall represent the board in all correspondence or 
interviews with the Executive and other recognized Commit- 
tees of the Alumni, and advise such methods as may, in its 
judgment, increase the interest of the Alumni in the college. 

Article VIL — Name and Object of the Experiment 

Station. 

Section i. There shall be and hereby is established a 
department of the college which shall be known and desig- 
nated as the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment 
Station, said department having exclusive use of Nesmith 
Hall. 

Sec. 2. The object and purpose of such Station shall be 
to fulfil in its scope and work the requirements of section 2 
of the act of congress of March 2, 1887, establishing the same ; 
and to conduct such other researches and experiments bear- 
ing directly on the agricultural industry of the state of New 
Hampshire as may be deemed advisable by the Board of 
Trustees. 

Sec. 3. The Board of Trustees reserves to itself the 
power to control all property received and all officers 
appointed in the Experiment Station, established by the 



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" Hatch Bill," so-called, and the right to remove all such 
officers, when in their judgment the interests of the Station 
require it. 

Sfx. 4. The land belonging to the college, and used for 
agricultural purposes, shall be devoted to the uses of the 
Experiment Station, placed in the care of the Board of Con- 
trol, but subject to the Board of Trustees the same as the 
Experiment Station under the preceding section. 

Sec. 5. The Trustees shall set apart such rooms and 
buildings as shall be needed from time to time for the pur- 
poses of an Experiment Station, on such terms as shall be 
provided when assigned, subject to the provisions of section 
3 of this article. 

Sec. 6. All records in this department, relating to the 
Board of Control and Directors, shall be open at any time to 
the inspection of any member of the Board of Trustees. 

Article VIII. — Director of Experiment Station. 

Section i. The Director shall be the Executive officer of 
the Experiment Station and farm, and the work shall be 
under his control and management, subject to the general 
supervision of the Board of Control, the President of the 
College, and the several sections of Article 7 of these By- 
Laws. 

Sec. 2. All bills contracted by any department of the Sta- 
tion or farm shall be approved by said Director before 
being countersigned by the President of the College, and 
when so approved by both shall be paid by the Treasurer 
out of the Experiment Station fund. 

Sec. 3. He shall establish such a system of book-keeping 
in the several departments, that all experiments and work 
in the Station shall be a matter of record. In all experi- 
mental work on the farm or at the Station the books shall be 
so kept as to show the exact time employed in said experi- 
ments, to the end that there shall be no doubt as to the cost 



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of the same, and that said experiments may prove of value 
as a matter of reference bearing upon the different subjects 
under investigation. He shall cause the dift'erent depart- 
ments to make detailed reports of all work done by them, 
including the cost of the same, monthly, or oftener as he 
may require ; and from these reports he shall make annually 
to the President of the College and Trustees a report to 
cover all the work carried on at the Station and on the farm, 
and the cost of the same. 

He shall, also, annually report to the President of the Col- 
lege and to the Trustees, the value and condition of the 
farm which shall include all stock and machinery thereon, 
also, all crops raised on the farm, and how disposed of ; 
— if fed to the stock they shall be charged at their market 
value and credited to the farm, and the farm shall also be 
charged with all manure made by the cattle, horses, sheep, 
and swine, kept at the Station or farm, as Avell as labor. 

Sec. 4. He shall also make a record, and report to the 
Treasurer the value of all labor and also all crops, stock, 
lumber, wood, or material, sold from or used in any depart- 
ments of the College, for any purpose as so much cash, so 
that it can be carried into the Treasurer's accounts. 

Sec. 5. If he shall sell or otherwise dispose of the products 
of the Station or farm, he shall make a record of the same, 
and shall make out, present, and collect all accounts and 
bills accruing from the sale of productions in his depart- 
ment, and shall, on the first of every month, pay into the 
College treasury all sums of money received from such sales, 
accompanied by an itemized statement of the sources of such 
receipts and the same shall be kept as a separate fund and 
used only for farm improvements. 

Sec. 6. It shall be his duty to carry out the measures 
determined upon by the Trustees and Board of Control, and 
to publish and to distribute the bulletins of the Station as 
required by law. 



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Article IX. — The Faculty — Voting. 

The Faculty of the College shall consist of the President 
of the College and those instructors who hold full professor- 
ships. Members of the Faculty shall be elected to their re- 
spective positions by the Board of Trustees whenever vacan- 
cies occur or whenever the Board deem it expedient. 

A full professorship in the College shall be understood 
to be a position in which its occupant is placed at the head 
of a particular department of instruction, and such professor- 
ship can be created only by vote of the Trustees. Any per- 
son elected to a full professorship shall thereupon become 
a member of the Faculty, and be entitled to a voice and vote 
in the proceedings of that body. 

Tutors, and lecturers may be engaged by the President of 
the College, with the advice and consent of the Committee 
on Curriculum, said engagements to be made subject to the 
confirmation of the Board of Trustees ; and such tutors, and 
lecturers shall be included in the list of the Faculty printed 
in the annual catalogue and entitled to take part in Faculty 
meetings, but not entitled to vote therein, except in the 
absence of the head of the department in which they are 
employed, when they may represent that department by vote 
or otherwise, if the majority of the Faculty assent thereto ; 
but no department shall be represented at any meeting by 
more than one vote. 

Article X. — Duties of the Faculty. 

The President of the College shall be the chief executive 
officer of the Institution, and shall have general supervision 
of all departments of instruction and discipline, and all mat- 
ters pertaining to the general welfare of the College and the 
students. He shall pass upon all bills and claims against 
the College, and shall be responsible for the proper care of 
the grounds and buildings, and all apparatus and personal 



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property pertaining thereto. He shall draw his order on the 
Treasurer for the payment of approved bills, and see that 
the expenditures do not exceed the appropriations in any 
department. He shall furnish the Treasurer with a sched- 
ule of all approved bills each month, and the Treasurer is 
authorized to pa)' his order for the amount of such bills, and 
the order of the President with such a schedule shall be a 
sufficient voucher for the Treasurer. These approved bills 
when paid and receipted shall be a sufficient voucher for the 
President. He shall at the annual meetings report the re- 
ceipts and expenditures from each fund and show balance 
on hand of each. 

He shall give bonds to the satisfaction of the Trustees for 
the faithful performance of his duties. 

The President shall, with the advice and consent of his 
associates of the Faculty, establish such rules and regula- 
tions for the government of the students and for the general 
work of the College as shall in their judgment best subserve 
the interests of both, subject to the approval of the Board of 
Trustees. 

He shall be ex-officio a member of the Board of Trustees 
and of all Standing Committees from said Board. He shall 
be President of the Faculty, and have general supervision of 
all college work, including Experiment Station. He shall 
direct the correspondence of the Faculty, have charge of 
the advertising ordered by the Board, and custody of the 
College Seal. He shall give lectures, and take such part in 
the instruction as in his judgment the interests of the Col- 
lege demand. 

The institute work of the College shall be carried on by 
him, or any member of the Faculty under his supervision. 
He shall direct the course as laid out by the Faculty and 
approved by the Committee on Curriculum. He shall report 
any defect in any member of the Faculty, Instructor, or 
Officer of the College, which he deems injurious to the Col- 
lege, to the President of the Board of Trustees. 



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He is authorized to grant temporary leave of absence 
to students. He shall call all meetings of the Faculty, and 
a request of three of the Faculty to hold a meeting shall be 
granted. He shall preside in said meetings, and cause a 
record of all business transacted therein to be kept in a 
suitable book, subject to the examination of any member 
of the Board of Trustees. 

The members of the Faculty, who are the heads of depart- 
ments of instruction, shall, under the supervision of the 
President, be responsible for the same, including the custody 
and care of the apparatus belonging to their respective de- 
partments. 

Associate professors, tutors, or superintendents shall be 
under the direct supervision of the heads of the departments 
in which they are working, and answerable to them : but this 
shall not debar such associate professors, tutors, or superin- 
tendents from presenting to the Faculty reports of their 
work, or any views relating to the same. 

It shall be the duty of the head of each department, or 
his assistant, to make, if required by the Finance Committee, 
an inventory at the end of each year of all apparatus and 
personal property belonging in his department, and forward 
it to the President, who, after examination and approval, shall 
file the same with the Treasurer as a part of the accounts of 
the College, and in the case of the farm department, this 
inventory shall include an account of the stock and produce 
at a fair market valuation. 

The Faculty shall present to the Committee on Curricu- 
lum, before the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees, a 
statement of any desirable changes in the courses of study, 
and to the Committee on Unance, a statement of the wants 
of the different departments, and said Committees shall 
thereupon consider the same, and report at the annual meet- 
ing such recommendations as they deem expedient. 

The professors and instructors shall be liable to do a lim- 
ited amount of clerical or supervision work, this work being 



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apportioned by the Faculty so as to equalize the full amount 
of work clone by the different instructors. 

Article XL — Meetings of the Faculty. 

The Faculty shall choose annually in June a Secretary 
and such other officers and committees as they deem expe" 
dient. They shall hold at least two meetings a month dur- 
ing each term of the collegiate year, and keep a record of 
each meeting, with the names of the instructors present, 
open at all times to the inspection of the Board .of Trustees, 
or any member thereof. 

It shall be the duty of the members of the Faculty, and 
all instructors and lecturers in the College living in Durham, 
to attend regularly the Faculty meetings, and take part 
therein, unless excused by the President. 

Article XII. — Matters of Importance — Appeal. 

Section i. All important matters relating to the work of 
the College, its discipline, instruction, and the well-being of the 
students, also all plans touching the arrangement of the 
grounds and buildings, shall be considered by the Faculty as 
a body, and in case of disagreement shall be decided by vote. 
In the event of a tie vote, or the inability to agree from any 
cause, an appeal may be taken to the Executive Committee, 
or directly to the full Board of Trustees. 

Sec. 2. Any professor, associate professor, tutor, or super- 
intendent, who is dissatisfied with any decision of the Fac- 
ulty, or the President of the College, or who has any matter 
which he would like to bring before the Trustees, may pre- 
sent the same in writing, or in person to the Executive Com- 
mittee, or directly to the full board, as he may elect. 

Article XIII. — Vacancies in the Faculty. 
Section i. The position of Dean maybe filled at any legal 



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meeting, and the occupant shall hold the position subject to 
removal at the pleasure of the Board. In the event of a 
vacancy in the office of President of the College, or during 
his temporary absence or inability to attend to the duties of 
that office, the Dean shall perform the duties of President of 
the College until the vacancy is filled or the President re- 
turns to his duties. 

Sec. 2. In the event of a vacancy in any chair of in- 
struction, or during the absence of any instructor, the 
President, with the advice of the Faculty, may appoint 
some suitable instructor to perform the duties of the absentee 
until his return, or until the vacancy is filled by the Board 
of Trustees. Such appointee, if appointed to a chair or 
head of a department, shall be entitled, for the time being, 
to a vote in the Faculty as though regularly elected to a 
full professorship. 

Article XIV. — Payment of Faculty. 

Instructors in the College, occupying full professorships, 
and associate professors, shall draw their salaries monthly 
at a fixed yearly rate from the time they enter upon their 
duties, and thereafter from the first of July in each year. 
Other instructors, tutors, and lecturers shall receive such 
compensation and for such length of time, and in such man- 
ner, as is agreed upon at the time they are engaged. 

Article XV. — Leave of Absence. 

The Board of Trustees may grant leave of absence to any 
member of the Faculty or Instructors at any legal meeting 
of the Board. 

Article XVI. 

Women shall be admitted to the full privileges of the 
College. 



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Article XVII. — Historian. 

The Board of Trustees may select a Historian who shall 
collect and record in readable form all matters of historical 
value, as bearing upon the college. 

Article XVIII. — Conferring Degrees. 

The Trustees shall confer the degree of Bachelor of 
Science on students who complete the whole course, and at- 
tain a satisfactory per cent, in recitations and examinations, 
also if satisfactory to the Faculty in deportment. 

The theses of the senior class shall be laid before the 
Trustees for examination, and each member of the graduat- 
ing class shall deposit with the Faculty a cop}' of his thesis 
for preservation, and the Board shall cause all the theses of 
the graduating class of each year to be bound in a volume 
for permanent preservation. 

Article XIX. — Quorum. 

Section i. A quorum of seven members shall be necessary 
to transact any business of the Board, but any less number, at 
a meeting duly called, may adjourn from time to time until 
a quorum shall be obtained. 

Sec. 2. Not less than seven affirmative votes shall be required 
to elect a President of the College in accordance with chap- 
ter 52, section 5, of Pamphlet Laws of New Hampshire, ses- 
sion of 1S91. 

Article XX. — Amendments. 

Section i. These B3'-laws may be changed or amended, 
and additional by-laws may be adopted at any stated meet- 
ing of the Trustees, provided notice has been given to each 
of the Trustees as required in Article i of these By-laws, by 
a vote of two thirds of the members present. 



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Sec. 2. These By-laws shall be suspended only by 
unanimous consent at the stated meetings. 

Sec. 3. All prior By-laws, and all votes of the Board 
of Trustees inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed, and 
these By-laws shall take efifect and be in force from the date 
of their adoption. 



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LAWS COIsrCERNINQ 

THE 

NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
AND THE MECHANIC ARTS. 



LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. 



DONATION OF LANDS— 1862. 

AN ACT donating public lands to the several states and territories which 
may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic 
arts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America, in Congress assembled, That there be granted to the 
several states, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of pub- 
lic land, to be apportioned to each state, in quantity equal to 30,000 acres, 
for each senator and representative in congress to which the states are 
respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of 1860: Pro- 
vided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the pro- 
visions of this act. 

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That the land aforesaid, after being 
surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several states in sections or sub-di- 
visions of sections not less than one quarter of a section; and whenever 
there are public lands in a state, subject to sale at private entry, at one 
dollar and twenty-flve cents per acre, the quantity to which said state shall 
be entitled shall be selected from such lands, within the limits of such 
state; and the Secretary of the Interior is herebj- directed to issue to each 
of the states in which there is not the quantity of lands subject to sale at 
private entry, at one dollar and twenty-flve cents per acre, to which said 
state may be entitled under the provisions of this act, land scrip to the 
amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to 
be sold by said states, and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and 
purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatso- 
ever: Provided, That in no case shall any state to which land scrip maj' 
thus be issued, be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other 
state, or of any territories of the United States; but their assignees maj- 
thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of 
the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty- 
flve cents or less per acre. And provided further. That not more than one 
million acres shall be located by such assignees in any one of the states. 
And provided further, ThSit no such locations shall be made before one 
year from the passage of this act. 



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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the expenses of management, 
superintendence, and taxes from date of selection of said lands, previous to 
their sales, and all expenses incurred in the management and disburse- 
ment of the moneys which may be received therefrom, shall be paid by 
the states to which thej- may belong, out of the treasurj- of said s;ates, so 
that the entire proceeds of the sale of said lands shall be applied, without 
any diminution whatever, to the purposes hereinafter mentioned. 

Sec. 4. And he it further enacted, That all moneys derived from the sale 
of lands aforesaid, by the states to which the lands are apportioned, and 
from the sales of land scrip hereinbefore provided for, shall be invested in 
stocks of the United States, or of the states, or some other safe stocks, 
yielding not less than live per cent, upon the par value of said stocks; and 
that the money so invested shall constitute a perpetual fund, the capital 
of whi^-h shall remain forever undiminished (except so far as may be pro- 
vided in section fifth of this act), and the interest of which shall be invio- 
lably appropriated by each state, which may take and claim the benefit of 
this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one col- 
lege, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific 
and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such 
branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, 
in such manner as the legislatures of the states may respectively pre- 
scribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the in- 
dustrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life. 

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That the grant of land and scrip hereby 
authorized shall be made on the following conditions, to which, as well as 
to the provisions hereinbefore contained, the previous assent of the several 
states shall be signified by legislative acts: 

First — If any portion of the fund invested as provided by the foregoing 
section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall by anj' action or con- 
tingency be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the state to which 
it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undimin- 
ished; and the annual interest .shall be regularly applied, without diminu- 
tion, to the purposes mentioned in the fourth section of this act, except 
that a sum, not exceeding ten per centum upon the amount received by 
any state under the provisions of this act, may be expended for the pur- 
chase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by 
the respective legislatures of said states. 

Second— 'No portion of said fund, nor the intere-t thereon, shall be 
applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the pur- 
chase, ercCtio;i, preservation, or repair of any building or bui dings. 

Third — Any state which may taise and claim the benefit of the provisions 
of this act, shall provide, within five years, at least not less than one 
college, as pre-cribed in the fourth section of this act, or he grant to such 
state shall cease; and said state shall be bound to pay the United States 
the amount received of any lands previously sold, and that the title to 
purchasers under the state hall be valid. 

Fourth— An annual report shall be made regarding the progress of each 
college, recording any improvements and experiments made, with their 
cost and results, and such other matters, Including state industrial and 
economical statistics, as may be supposed useful; one copy of which shall 
be transmitted by mail free, by each, to all the other colleges which may 
be endowed under the provisions of this act, and also one copy to the 
secretary of the interior. 



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Fifth — When lands shall be selected from those which have been raised 
to double the minimum price in consequence of railroad grants, they shall 
be computed to the states at the maximum price, and the number of acres 
proportionally dimin islied. 

Sirxth~lSo state, while in a condition of rebellion or insurrection against 
the government of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefits 
of this act. 

Seventh— Ho state shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless 
it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two j'ears 
from the date of the approval by the President. 

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That land scrip issued under the pro- 
vision of this act shall not be subject to location until after the first day of 
January, 1863. 

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted. That land oflicers shall receive the 
same fee for locating land scrip issued under the provisions of this act, as 
is now allowed for the location of military bounty land warrants under 
existing laws: Provided, Their maximum compensation shall not be 
thereby increase'd. 

fc'EC. 8. And be it further enacted. That the governors of the several 
states to which scrip shall be issued under this act, shall be required to 
report annually to congress all sales made of such scrip until the whole 
shall be disposed of, the amount received for the same, and what appro- 
priation has been made of the proceeds. 

[Approved July 2, 1862.] 



EXTENSION OF TIME— 1866. 

AN ACT to amend the fifth section of an act entitled, "An act donating- 

public lands to the several states and territories which may provid -t 

colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts," approved 

July two, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, so as to extend the time 

within which the provisions of said act shall be accepted and such 

colleges established. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

States of A^nerica in Congress assembled. That the time in which the 

several states may comply with the provisions of the act of July two, 

eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled, ''An act donating public lands 

to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the 

benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," is hereby extended so that 

the acceptance of the benefits of said act maybe expressed within three 

years from the passage of this act, and the colleges required by the said 

act may be provided within five j'ears from the date of the filing of such 

acceptance with the commissioner of the general land office: Provided, 

That whe any territory shall become a state and be admitted in o the 

Union, such new state shall be entitled to the benefits of the said act of 

July two, eighte.n hundred and sixty-two, by expressing the acceptance 

therein required within three years from the date of its admission into the 

Union, and providing the college or colleges within five years after such 

acceptance, as prescribed in this act: Provided, further. That any state 

which has heretofore expressed its acceptance of the act herein referred to, 

shall have the period of five years within which to provide at least one 



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college, as described in the fourth section of said act, after the time for 
providins' said college, according to the act of July second, eighteen hun- 
dred and sixty-two, shall have expired. 
[Approved July 23, 1866.] 



AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 

AN ACT to e.stablish agricultural experiment stations in connection with 
the colleges established in the several states under the provisions of 
an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of 
the acts sui)plementary thereto. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to aid in acquiring 
and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical 
information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote 
scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and 
applications of agricultural science, there shall be established, under 
direction of the college or colltges, or agricultural department of colleges, 
in each state or territory, established or which may hereafter be estab- 
lished, in accordance with the provisions of an act approved July second, 
eighteen hundred and sixty two, entitled " An act donating public lands 
to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the 
benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," or any of the supplements 
to said act, a department to be known and designated as an " agricultural 
experiment station : " Provided, That in any state or territory in which 
two such colleges have been or may be so established the appropriation 
hereinafter made to such state or territorj- shall be eciually divided be- 
tween sucli colleges, unless the legislature of such state or territory shall 
otherwise direct. 

Sec 2. That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations 
to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of 
plants and animals ; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with 
the remedies for the .same ; the chemical composition of useful plants at 
their different stages of growth ; the comparative advantages of rotative 
cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops ; the capacity of new 
plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the 
chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial, with experiments 
designed to test their comparative effects on crops of different kinds ; the 
adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants ; the composition and 
digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals ; the scien- 
tific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese ; 
and such oth'r researches or experiments bearing- directly on the agri- 
cultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed 
advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the 
respective states or territories. 

Sec 3. That in order to .secure, as far as practicable, uniformity of 
methods ar.d results in the work of .said .stations, it shall be the duty of the 
United States Commissioner of Agriculture to furnish forms, as far as 
practicable, for the tal)ulation of results of investigation or experiments ; 
to inilicate, from time to time, such lines of inquiry as to him shall seem 
most important ; and in general, to furnish such advice and assistance as 



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will best promote the purposes of this act. It shall be the duty of each of 
said stations annually, on or before the first day of February, to make to 
the governor of the state or territory in which it is located, a full and 
detailed report of its operations, including a statement of receipts and 
expenditures, a copy of which report shall be sent to each of said stations, 
to the said Commissioner of Agriculture, and to the Secretary of the 
Treasury of the United States. 

Sec. i. That bulletiiis or reports of progress shall be published at said 
stations at lea.st once in three months, one copy of which shall be sent to 
each newspaper in the states or territories in which they are respectively 
located, and to such individuals actually engaged in farming as may re- 
quest the same, and as far as the means of the station will permit. Such 
bulletins or reports and the annual reports of said station shall be trans- 
mitted in the mails of the United States free of charge for po.stage, under 
such regulations as the Postmaster General may from time to time 
prescribe. 

Sec. 5. That for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses of con- 
ducting investigations and experiments, and printing and distributing 
the results as hereinbefore described, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars 
per annum is hereby appropriated to each state, to be specially provided 
for by congress in the appropriations from year to year, and to each 
territory entitled under the provisions of section eight of this act out of 
any money in the Treasury proceeding from the sales of public lands, to be 
paid in equal quarterly payments, on the first day of January, April, July, 
and October in each year, to the treasurer or other ofllcer duly ap- 
pointed by the governing boards of said colleges to receive the same; the 
first payment to be made on the first day of October, eighteen hundred 
and eighty-seven : Provided, hoicever, That out of the first annual appro- 
priation so received by any station an amount not exceeding one -fifth 
may be expended in the erection enlargement, or repair of a building or 
buildings necessary for carrying on the work of such station; and there- 
after an amount not exceeding five per centum of such annual appropria- 
tion may be so expended. 

Sec. 6. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of the Treasury 
from the annual statement of receipts and expenditures of any of said 
.stations, that a portion of the preceding annual appropriation remains 
unexpended, such amount shall be deducted from the next succeeding 
annual appropriation to uch station, in order that the amount of money 
appropriated to any station shall not exceed the amount actually and 
necessarily required for its maintenance and support. 

Sec 7. That nothing in this act shall be con.strued to impair or modify 
the legal relation existing between any of the said colleges and the gov- 
ernment of the states or territories in which they are respectively located. 

Sec 8. That in states having colleges entitled under this section to the 
benefits of this act, and having also agricultural experiment stations es- 
tablished by law separate from said colleges, such state shall be author- 
ized to apply such benefits to experiments at stations so established by 
such states ; and in case any state shall have established under the pro- 
visions of said act of July second aforesaid, an agricultural department or 
experimental station, in connection with any university, college, or insti- 
tution not distinctively an agricultural college or school, and such 
state shall have established or shall hereafter establish a separate agri- 
cultural college or school, which shall have connected therewith an ex- 



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perimental farm or siaiion, the lesislaturo of such state may apply in 
whole or in part the appropriation by this act made, to such separate 
agricultural college or school, ami no legislature shall by contract, ex- 
press or implied, disable itself from so doing. 

Sec. 9. That the grants of moneys authorized by this act are made sub- 
ject to the legislative assent of the several states and territories to the 
purposes of said grants : Prnvided, That ijayment of such installments 
of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any state before 
the adjournment of the regular session of its legislature meeting next 
after the i>assage of this act, shall be made upon the assent of the governor 
thereof, duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sec 10. Nothing in this act shall he held or construed as binding the 
United States to continue any payment from the Treasury to any or all the 
states or institutions mentioned in this act, but congress may at any time 
amend, suspend, or repeal anj' or all the provisions of this act. 
[Approved March 2, 1887.] 



APPROPRIATIONS. 

Acts of 1S88. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That to carry into effect the 
provisions of an act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty- 
seven, entitled "An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in 
connection with the colleges established in the several states, under the 
provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty- 
two, and of the acts supplementary thereto," the sum of five hun<lred and 
eighty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 
hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, for the fiscal j'ear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred 
and eighty-eignt. 

[Approved February 1, 1888.] 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That the grant of money author- 
ized by the act of Congress, entitled "An act to establish agricultural 
experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the sev- 
eral states under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen 
hundred and sixty-two, and of acts suplementary thereto," are subject, as 
therein provided, to the legislative assent of the states or territories to be 
affected thereby; but as to such installments of the appropriations as may 
be now due or may hereafter become due when the legislature may not be 
in .session, the governor of said .state or territory may make the assent 
therein provided, and, upon a duly certified copy thereof to the Secretary 
of the Treasurj-. he shall cau.se the same to be paid in the manner provided 
in the act of which this i.s amendatory until the termination of the next 
regular session of the legislature of .such state or territory. 
[Approved June 7, 1888.] 



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[From act making appropriations for Agricultural Department.] 
That to carry into effect the provisions of an act approved March sec- 
ond, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to establish 
agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges estaL- 
lished in the several states, under the provisions of an act approved July 
second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the acts supplementary 
thereto," five hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars; ten thousand dol- 
lars of which sum shall be payable upon the order of the Commissioner of 
Agriculture to enable him to carry out the provisions of section three of said 
act of March second, eighteen hundred and eightj'-seven, and to compare, 
edit, and pulillsh such of the results of the experiments made under section 
two of said act by said experimental stations as he maj' deem necessary; 
and for these purposes the Commissioner of Agriculture is authorized to 
employ such assistants, clerks, and other persons as he may deem neces- 
sary. 

[APPROVED July 18, 1888.] 

Actof 18S9. 
[From act making appropriations for Agricultural Department.] 
That to carry into effect the provisions of an act approved March second, 
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An act to establish agricul- 
tural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in 
the several states, under the provl.slons of an act approved July second, 
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto," 
six hundred thousand dollars, fifteen thousand dollars of which sum shall 
be payable upon the order of the Secretary of Agriculture to enable him to 
carry out the provisions of section three of said act of March second, 
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and to compare, edit, and publish 
such of the results of the experiments made under section two of said act 
by said experimental stations as he may deem necessary; and for these 
purposes the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to employ such assist- 
tants, clerks, and other persons as he may deem necessary: Provided, 
That, as far as practicable, all such stations shall devote a portion of their 
work to the examination and classification of the soils of their respective 
states and territories, with a view to securing more extended knowledge 
and better development of their agricultural capabilities. 

Act of J 890. 

[In the appropriations for Agricultural Experiment Stations it is p ovided 
that the •■ums appropriated to the several states shall be paid quar- 
terly in advance.] 

Actof 1S97. 
[F.om act making appropriations for Agricu'tural Department.] 
To carry into effect the provisions of an act approved March second, 
eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled, "An act to establish agricult- 
ural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established In the 
several states, under provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen 
hundred and sixtj'-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto," six hun- 
dred and seventy-five thousand dollars, fifteen thousand dollars of which 
sum shall be payable upon the order of the Secretary of Agriculture to 
enable him to carry out the provisions of section three of said act of March 



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second, eiphteen hundred and eighty-seven; and the Secretary of Agri- 
culture is hereby authorized to employ such assistants, clerits, and other 
persons as he may deem necessary, and to incur such other expenses in 
traveling, stationery, and otHce fixtures as he may find essential in 
carrying out the objects of the above acts, and the sums apportioned to the 
several states shall be paid quarterly, in advance. 

Act of 1893. 
[The act of the Fifty-second congress, making appropriations for the De- 
partment of Agriculture, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, con- 
tains the following paragraph:] 
"Agricultural experiment stations: To carry into effect the provisions of 
an act approved March 2, 1887, entitled, 'An act to establish agricultural 
experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the 
several states under provisions of an act approved July 2, 1862, and of the 
acts supplementary thereto,' and to enforce the execution thereof. 
?745,000, #25,000 of which sum shall be payable upon the order of the 
Secretary of Agriculture to enable him to carry out the provisions of 
section 3 of said act of March 2, 1887; and the Secretary of Agriculture is 
hereby authorized to employ such assistants, clerks, and other persons as 
he may deem necessary, and to incur such other expenses in traveling, 
stationery, and ottice fixtures as he may find essential in carrying out the 
objects of the above acts, and the sums apportioned to the several states 
shall l)e paid quarterly, in advance. And the Secretary of Agriculture is 
hereby authorized to furnish to such institutions or individuals as may care 
to buy it, copies of the card index of agricultural literature prepareil bj' 
the Ottice of Experiment Stations, and charge for the same a price covering 
the additional expen.se involved in the preparation of these copies, and he 
is hereby authorized to apply the moneys received toward the expense of 
the preparation of the index." 



MORRILL COLLEGE AID ACT— 1890. 

AN ACT to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more 
complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of 
agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of 
an act of congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and 
sixty-two. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House nf Representatives of the Cnited 
States of America in Congress assembled, That there .shall be and hereby 
is annually appropriateil, out of any money in the treasury not other.vise 
ai>propriated, arising from the sales of public lands, to be paid as herein- 
after provided, to each state and territory for the more complete endow- 
ment and maintenance of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the 
mechanic arts now established, or which may be hereafter established, 
in accordance with an act of congress approved July second, eighteen 
hundred and sixty-two, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the year 
ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an annual 
increase of the amount of such api)ropriati(>n thereafter for ten years by 
an additional sum of one thousand didlars over the preceding year, and 
the annual amount to be p:iid thereafter to each state and territory shall 



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be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in 
agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various 
branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with 
special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the 
facilities for such instruction: Provided, That no money shall be paid out 
under this act to any state or territory for the support or maintenance of a 
college where a distinction of race or color is made in the admission of 
students, but the establishment and maintenance of such colleges sepa- 
rately for white and colored students shall be held to be a compliance with 
the provisions of this act if the funds received in such state or territorj- be 
equitably divided as hereinafter set forth: Provided, That in any state in 
which there has been one college established in pursuance of the act 
of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and also in which an 
educational institution of like character has been established, or may be 
hereafter established, and is now aided by such state from its own 
revenue, for the education of colored students in agriculture and the 
mechanic arts, however named or styled, or whether or not it has received 
money heretofore under the act to which this a t is an amendment, the 
legislature of such state may propose and report to the Secretary of the 
interior a just and equitable division of the fund to be received under this, 
act between one college for white students and one institution for colored 
students established as aforesaid, which shall be divided into two parts and 
paid accordingly, and thereupon such institutions for colored students 
shall be entitled to the benefits of this act and subject to its provisions, as 
much as it would have been if it had been included under the act of 
eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the fulfilment of the forego ng 
provisions shall be taken as a compliance with the provisions in reference 
to separate colleges for white and colored students. 

Sec. 2. That the sums hereby appropriated to the states ; nd territories 
for the further endowment and support of colleges shall be annually paid 
on or before the thirty-first day of July of each j'ear, by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, upon the warrant of the Secretary of the Interior, out of the 
Treasury of the United States, to the state or territorial treasurer, or to 
.such ofHcer as shall be designated by the laws of such state or territorj' to 
receive the same, who shall, upon the order of the trustees of the college, 
or the institution for colored students, immediately pay over said sums to 
the treasurers of the respective colleges or other institutions entitled to 
receive the same; and such treasurers shall be required to report to the 
Secretary of Agriculture and to the Secretary of the Interior, on or before 
the first day of September of each year, a detailed statement of the amount 
so received and of its disbursement. The grants of moneys authorized by 
this act are made subject to the legislative assent of the several states and 
territories to the purpose of said grants: Provided, That payments o' 
such installments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to 
any state before the adjournment of the regular session of legislature 
meeting next after the passage of this act, shall be made upon the assent of 
the governor thereof, duly certified to the Secretary of the Treasury. 

Sec. 3. That if any portion of the moneys received by the designated 
officer of the state or territory for the further and more complete endow- 
ment, support, and maintenance of colleges, or of institutions for colored 
students, as provided in this act, shall, by any action or contingency, be 
diminished or lost, or be misapplied, it shall be replaced by the state or 
territory to which it belongs, and until so replaced no subsequent appro- 



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priation shall be apportioned or paid to such state or territory; and no 
portion of said moneys shall bo applied, directly or indirectly, under any 
pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of 
any building or buildings. An annual report by the president of each 
of said colleges shall he made to (he Secretary of Agriculture, as well as to 
the Secretary of the Interior, regarding the con<liti<)n and iirogress f)f 
each college, including statistical information in relation to its receipts 
and expenditures, its library, the number of students and professors, and 
also as to any improvements and experiments made under the direction of 
any exijeriment stations attached to said colleges, with their costs and 
results, and such other industrial and economical stati tics as may be 
regarded as useful, one copy of which shall be transmitted by mail free to 
all other colleges further en owed under ihis act. 

Sec. 4. That on or before the first day of July in each year, after the pas- 
sage of this act, the Secretary of the Interior .shall ascertain and certify tn 
the Secretary of the Treasury, as to each state and territory, whether it is 
entitled to receive its share of the annual api)r()priation for colleges, or of 
institutions for colored students, under this act, and the amount which 
thereupon each is entitled, respectively, to receive. If the Secretary of 
the Interior shall withhold a certificate from anj- state or territory of its 
appropriation the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the Presi- 
dent, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until 
the close of the next congress, in order that the state or territory may, if 
it .should so desire, appeal to congre.ss from the determination of the .Sec- 
retary of the Interior. If the next congress shall not direct such sum to be 
paid, it shall be covered into the Treasury. And the Secretary of the Inte- 
rior is here' y charged with the proper administration of this law. 

Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior shall annually report to con- 
gress the disbursements which have been made in all the states and territo- 
ries, and also whether the appropriation of any state or territory has been 
withheld, and if so, the reasons therefor. 

Sec. 6. Congress may at anytime amend, suspend, or repeal any or all 
of the provi.-iions of this act. 

[Approved Augu.st 30, 1890.] 



DETAIL OF OFFICERS OF THE ARMY. 

Revised Statutes of the United . States. 

Sec. 1225. The President may, upon the application of any established 
military institute, seminary or academy, college or univer.sity, within the 
United States, having capacity to educate at the same time not less than 
one hundred and fifty male students, detail an olHcer of the army or navy 
to act as superintendent or profes.sor thereof; but the number of officers 
so detailed shall not exceed fifty from the army, and ten from the navy, 
being a maximum of sixty, at any time, and they shall be app(^rtioned 
throughout the United States, — first, to those state institutions applying for 
such detail that are required to jirovide instruction in military tactics 
under the provisions of the act of congress of July second, eighteen hun- 
dred and sixty-two, donating lands for the establishment of colleges where 
the leading object shall be the practical instruction of the industrial classes 



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in agriculture and the mechanic arts, including military tactics; and 
after that, .said details to be distributed, as nearly as may be practicable, 
according to poi^ulation. The Secretary of War is authorized to issue, at 
"his discretion and under proper regulations to be prescribed by him, out 
of ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the government, and which 
can be spared for that purpose, such number of the same as may appear to 
be required for military instruction and practice by the students of any 
college or university under the provisions of this section, and the Secre- 
tary shall require a bond in each case, in double the value of the property, 
and for the care and safe keeping thereof, and for the return of the same 
when required: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as 
to prevent the detail of officers of the engineer corps of the navy as pro- 
fessors in scientific schools or colleges, as now provided by act of con- 
gress approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy- 
nine, entitled "An act to promote a knowledge of steam-engineering and 
iron ship-building among the students of scientific schools or colleges in 
the United States;" and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to issue 
ordnance and ordnance stores belonging to the government, on the terms 
and conditions hereinbefore provided, to any college or university at 
which a retired officer of the army may be assigned as provided bj' section 
twelve hundred and sixty of the Revised Statutes. 
[Approved September 26, 1888.] 



AN ACT to amend section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised 
Statutes, concerning details of officers of the army and navy to educa- 
tional institutions. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That section twelve hundred 
and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, concerning details of officers of 
the army and navy to educational institutions, be and the same is hereby 
amended so as to permit the President to detail, under the provisions of 
said act, not to exceed seventy-five ofllcers of the armj- of the United 
States; and the maximum » number of officers of the army and navy 
to be detailed at any one time under the t rovisions of the act passed Sep- 
tember twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending said 
section twelve hundred and twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, is hereby 
increased to eighty-five: Provided, That no ofiicer shall be detailed to or 
maintained at any of the educational institutions mentioned in said act 
where instruction and drill in military tactics is not given: Provided far- 
ther, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the detail 
of officers of the engineer corps of the navy as professors in scientific 
schools or colleges, as now provided by act of congress approved Februarj* 
twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled "An act to pro- 
mote a knowledge of steam-engineering and iron ship-building among the 
students of scientific schools or colleges in the United States." 

[Approved January 13, 1891.] 

Sec. 1260. Any retired officer maj% on his own application, be detailed to 
serve as professor in any college. ( But while so serving, such officer shall 
be allowed no additional compensation.) 



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[ Extract from the act of congress approved May 4, 1880.] 
That upon the application of any college, university, or institution of 
learninK incorporated under the laws of any state within the United States, 
having capacity at the same time to educate not less than one hundred and 
fifty male students, the President may detail an officer of the army on the 
retired list to act as president, superinten<lent, or professor thereof; and 
such officer may receive from the institution to which he may be detaileil 
the difference between his retired and full pay, and shall not receive any 
additional pay or allowance from the United States. 



DETAIL OF ENGINEERS FROxM THE NAVY. 

Sec. 1390. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of 
promoting a knowledge of steam-engineering and iron ship-building 
among the young men of the United States, the President may. upon the 
application of an e.stabli.shed scientific school or college within the United 
States, detail an officer from the engineer corps of the navy as professor 
in such school or college: Provided, That the number of officers so de- 
tailed shall not at any time exceed twenty-flve, and such details shall be 
governed by rules to be prescribed from time to time by the President: 
And provided further. That .such details may be withheld or withdrawn, 
whenever. In the judgment of the President, the interests of the public .ser- 
vice shall so require. 

[Approved February 26, 1879.] 



IMPORTATIONS FREE OF DUTY. 

Act of October, J 890. 

Sec 2. On and after the sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and 
ninety, unless otherwise specially provided for in this act, the following 
articles when imported shall be exempt from duty: 

515. Books, maps, lithographic prints and charts, specially imported, not 
more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith, for the use of any 
society incorporated or established for educational, philosophical, literary, 
or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the 
use or by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning 
in the United States, subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the 
Treasury ^hall prescribe. 

677. Philosophical and scientific apparatus, instruments, and prepara- 
tions; statuary, casts of marble, bronze, alabaster, or plaster of Paris; 
X)aintings, drawings, and etchings, specially imported In good faith for 
the use of anj' society or institution incorporated or established for religi- 
ous, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for 
encouragement of the fine arts, and not intended for sale. 



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692. Regalia and gems, statues, statuary, and specimens of sculpture 
where specially imported in good faith for the use of any society incorpo- 
rated or established solely for educational, philosophical, literary, or relig- 
ious purposes, or for the encouragement of fine arts, or for the use or by 
order of any college, academy, school, seminary of learning, or public 
library in the United States; but the term " regalia, " as herein used, shall 
be held to embrace onl j' such insignia of rank of office or emblems, as may 
be worn upon the person or borne in the hand during public exercises of 
the society or institution, and shall not include articles of furniture or fix- 
tures, or of regular wearing apparel, nor personal property of individuals. 



ALCOHOL FREE OF TAX. 

Sec. 3297. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to grant permits to 
any incorporated or chartered scientific institution or college of learning, 
to with '.raw alcohol in specified quantities from bond without payment of 
the intei'nal revenue tax on the same, or on the spirits from which the 
alcohol has been distilled, for the sole purpose of preserving specimens of 
anatomy, physiology, or natural hi-story, belonging to such institution, or 
for use in its chemical laboratory: Pro?;ided, That application for permits 
shall be made by the president or curator of such institutions, who shall 
file a bond for double the amount of the tax on the alcohol to be withdrawn, 
with two good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Commissioner 
of Internal Revenue, and conditioned that the whole quantity of alcohol so 
withdrawn from bond shall be used for the purposes above specified, and 
for no other, and that the said president or curator shall comply with such 
other requirements and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may 
prescribe. And if any alcohol so obtained is used by any officer, as afore- 
said, of such institutions for any purposes other than that above specified, 
then the said otficer or sureties shall pay the tax on the whole amount of 
alcohol so withdrawn from bond, together with a like amount as a penalty 
in addition thereto. 

The provisions contained in the foregoing section are extended by the 
act of congress approved May 3, 1878 (20 Stat. , 48) which provides: 

That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to grant permits, as 
provided for in section thirty-two hundred and ninetyrsevenof the Revised 
Statutes of the United States, passed at the first session of the Forty-third 
Congress, to any scientific university, or college of learning created and 
constituted such by any state or territory under its laws, though not in- 
corporated or chartered, upon the same terms and subject to the same re- 
strictions and penalties, already provided by said section thirty-two hun- 
dred and ninety-seven: Provided further, That the bond required thereby 
may be executed by anj- officer of such university or college, or by any 
other person for it, and on its behalf, with two good and sufficient sureties,, 
upon like conditions, and to be approved as by said section is provided. 



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REGULATIONS OF THE POST OFFICE DEPART- 
MENT FOR THE FREE TRANSMISSION IN 
THE MAILS OF THE BULLETINS AND RE- 
PORTS OF AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT 
STATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF CONGRESS 
OF MARCH 2, 1SS7. 

(1) Any claimant of the privilege must apply for authority to exercise it 
to the Postmaster-General, stating the date of the establishment of such 
station, its proper name or designation, its official organization and the 
names of its officers, the name of the university, college, school, or institu- 
ti(m to which it is attached, if any, the legislation of the State or Territory 
providing for its establishment, and any other granting it the benefits of 
the provision made by congress as aforesaid (accompanied by a copy of 
the act or acts), and whether any other such station in the same State or 
Territory is considered, or claims to be, also entitled to the privilege; and 
also the place of its location and the name of the post-office where the 
bulletins and reports will be mailed. The application must be signed by 
the oflicer in charge of the station. 

(2) If such apijlication be allowed after examination by the department, 
the postma.ster of the proper office will be instructed to admit suph 
bulletins and reports to the mails in compliance with these regulations, 
and the oflicer in charge of the station will be notified thereof. 

(3) Paragraph 3, section 419, Postal Laws and Regulations, 1887, is hereby 
amended so as to read as follows: 

"Only such bulletins or reports as shall have been issued after the 
station became entitled to the benefits of the act can be transmitted free, 
and such bulletins or reports may be enclosed in envclojies or wrappers, 
sealed or unsealed. On the exterior of every envelope, wrapper, or 
package must be written or printed the name of the station and place of its 
location, the designation of the enclosed bulletin or report, and the word 
'Free' over the signature or fac simile thereof of the officer in charge of 
the station, to be affixed by himself, or bj- some one duly deputed by him 
for that purpose. Thtre maj- also be written or printed upon the envelope 
or wrapper a request that the postmaster at the office of delivery will 
notify the mailing station of the change of address of the addressee, or 
other reason for inaliility to deliver the same, and upon a bulk package a 
request to the postmaster to oi)en and distribute the 'franked' matter 
therein, in accordance with the address thereon. 

"Bulletins jjublished by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and 
analogous to those of the station, and entitled to be mailed free under the 
penalty envelope of that department, may also be adopted and mailed by 
the several stations with their own publications, under the same regula- 
tions, and any bulletins or reports mailable free by any agricultural 
experiment station under these regulations may be so mailed by any other 
station having free mailing authority. 

"If such station's annual reports be printed by state authority, and 
consist in part of mailer relating to the land-grant college to which such 
.station is attached, then said report may be mailed free entire by the 



director of the station; provided, in his judgment, the whole consists of 
useful information of an agricultural character." 

The post-office department has recently ruled that "in sending out 
bulletins from an agricultural experiment station it is permissible to 
inclose postal cards to enable correspondents of the station to acknowledge 
the receipt of its publications and to request their continuous trans- 
mission." 

(4) The bulletins may be mailed to the stations, newspapers, or persons 
to whom they are by the foregoing- act authorized to be sent, and the 
annual reports to any address within the United States. 



RULIXGS OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT AS 
TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ACT OF 
CONGRESS OF MARCH 2, 1887, ESTABLISH- 
ING AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STA- 
TIONS. 

From copies of letters addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, and 
others by the First Comptroller of the Treasury, relating to the construc- 
tion of the act of Congress of March 2, 1887, and acts supplementary 
thereto, the following digest has been prepared for the use of the stations. 
The sections are those of the act; the dates, those of the decisions by the 
Comptroller: 

Section 3. January 30, 1888. 

That the annual financial statement of the stations, with vouchers, should 
not b^ sent to the Treasury Department, but that a cop3' simply of the re- 
port that is made to the governor is to be sent to the Secretary of the 
Treasury. 

Section 3. January 31, 1888. 

First. That the Treasury Department will not require officers of experi- 
ment stations to do or perform anything not specifleallj- required b.y said 
bill. 

Second. That the Secretary of the Treasury is not required to take a 
bond of the officers of said stations for the money paid over under the pro- 
visions of said act. 

Third. That no reports will be required from the stations directly to the 
Secretary of the Treasury; but the governor of the State must send to the 
Secretary of the Treasury a copy of the report made to him by the colleges 
or stations. ^ 

Section 5. March 4, 1887. 

'• Congress only intended by the expression ' the sum of fifteen thousand 
dollars is hereby appropriated to each state,' to fix the amount that could 
be specially provided for by Congress in appropriations from year to year. 
Hence I conclude that section 5 does not make an appropriation; but that 
the same must be specially provided for by Congress." 



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Secti07is 5 and 6. March 10, 1S88. 

(1) The appropriations are intended for the fiscal year and not the cal- 
endar year. 

(2) The first annual report should be made on or before the 1st day of 
February, 1889, and said report should include simply the operations of the 
preceding- fiscal year, not down to and including December 31, but up to 
and including June 30, 1888. 

(3) The balance unexpended at the end of the fiscal year, the 30th of 
June preceding the report, must be accounted for in the report. 

(4) The one-flfth proviso for building in section 5 can be made out of the 
first annual appropriation, to wit, that which commences on the l.st day of 
July, 1887, and terminates <jn the 30th of June, 1888. 

(5) The intention of Congress was to make quarterly paj'ments, not in 
advance, but at the end of each quarter. 

Section .5, proviso. March 22, 1888. 
" I have been informed that there is no farm connected with the agricul- 
tural college in Delaware. The act provides that one fifth of the amount 
appropriated can be expended in the creation, enlargement, or repair of a 
building or buildings for carrying on the work of the station receiving the 
appropriation. I am in doubt whether, with this qualification, out of the 
balance of the appropriation a farm could either be purchased or rented. 
Another question in my mind is as to the competency of the legislature 
which was in session at the date of the passage of the act to accept, as it 
assumed to do, of the provisions of the act, the ninth section of which pro- 
vides that ' Payment of such instalments of the appropriation herein made 
as .shall become due to any State before the adjournment of the regular 
session of its legislature meeting next after the passage of this act shall be 
made upon the assent of the governor thereof duly certified to the Secre- 
tary of the Treasury.' " 

Section 6. April 24, 1888. 
At the end of the present fiscal year, to wit, June 30, any portion of the 
Sl.5,000 which shall have been received, up to and including the payment 
made on the 1st day of July, which is unexpended, or which may not be 
necessary to pay claims under contracts made for the benefit of said agri- 
cultural station, must be deducted from the next annual appropriation, as 
specified in said sixth section. 

Section 6. August 2, 1888. 

The fiscal year commences on the Istjday of July, corresponding with the 
fl.scal year of the government. 

An agricultural station entitled to the benefits of said appropriations 
made by Congress can anticipate the payment to be made July 1, and make 
contracts of purchases prior to that time, if it shall be necessary to carry 
on the work of the station. Of course no portion of said appropriations 
paid in quarterly instalments can be drawn from the Treasury unless 
needed for the purposes indicated in the act; and so much of what is so 
drawn as may not have been expendetl within the .vear must be accounted 
for as part of the appropriation for the following year. 

Section 8. January 30, 1888. 
The State of New York ought to designate whether to the college or to 



the station, or to both, it desires the appropriation to be applied. The 
eighth section of the act seems to authorize the State to apply such benefits 
to experimental stations it may have established as it desires. 

Where there are no experimental stations connected with the colleges, 
the legislatures of such States must connect the agricultural experiment 
stations with the colleges already established under the act of July 2, 1862; 
there is no authority in the act authorizing the establishment of agricul- 
tural experiment stations independent of said colleges. 

The act contemplates that where stations have already been established 
disconnected from the colleges, the legislatures of such States may make 
such provisions in regard thereto as they may deem proper; but it does 
not authorize the establishment of stations except in connection with the 
colleges that were at that time or might thereafter be established under 
the act of July 2, 1862. 

Section 8. February 14, 1S88. 

Where there is an agricultural college or station which may have been 
established by State authority, and is maintained by the State, the eighth 
section of the above act would authorize the State to designate the station 
to which it desired the appropriation to be applied, whether to one or more, 
or all, and the Secretary of the Treasury should make the payment under 
the appropriation to whichever one the State might designate. 

Sections 1 and 8. February 15, 1888. 

(1) When an agricultural college or station has been established under 
the act of July 2. 1862, each college is entitled to the benefits of the provi- 
sions of said act (i. e., of March 2, 1887). 

(2) In a State where an agricultural college has been established under 
the act of Jul J' 2, 1862, and agricultural stations have also been established, 
either under the act of Julj' 2, 1862, or b.v State authority, before March 2, 
1887, the legislature of such State may determine which one of said institu- 
tions, or how many of them, shall receive the benefits of the act of March 
2, 1887. 

(3) If the legislature of anj^ State in which an agricultural co lege has 
been established under the act of July 2, 1862, desires to establish an agri- 
cultural station which shall be entitled to the benefits of said act it must 
establish such station in connection with said college. 

Proviso to section 1 and section 8. December 7, 1888. 

It is within the power of the legislature of any State that has accepted 
the provisions of said act of March 2, 1887, to dispose of the amount appro- 
priated by Congress for said station to either one or all of the agricultural 
colleges or stations which may have been established in said State by vir- 
tue of either the provisions of the act of July 2, 1862, or the provisions of 
said eighth section of the act of March 2, 1887. 

The whole responsibility rests upon the State legislature as to how the 
fund appropriated by Congress shall be distributed among these various 
institutions of the State, provided there is one or more agricultural col- 
leges with which an agricultural station is connected, or one or more agri- 
cultural stations. 

Section 8. January 28, 1889. 

The act of the State of Georgia, in authorizing the governor to receive 
the fund to which the State may be entitled under the act of March 2, 1887, 



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is not in conflict with any of tlie provisions of said act. If a State lias es- 
tablished an ag:ricultural college or station under the act of Julj- 2, 1862, or 
if it has established an agricultural station in connection with said college, 
as provided in the eighth section of March 2, 1887, the legislature can 
authorize some person or persons to receive the money donated bj' the 
Government, and direct its application in such waj' and manner as it seems 
best to carrj- out the objects and purposes of said acts of Congress to either 
the colleges or the station, or to both. 

Section 9. February 4, 1888. 
It appears by the statement of Representative Blount that there was a 
session of the legislature of the State of Georgia after the passage of the 
act, and before the tirst payment became due, October 1, 1887, and which 
did not adjourn until after that time. That being the case, under the pro- 
viso of the section, the governor of the State cannot assent to that pay- 
ment which was to be made October 1, 1887. The legislature having ad- 
journed before the second payment became due, without accepting the 
provisions of the bill, no further payment can be made to said State until 
the legislature thereof shall have accepted the provisions of the bill. You 
will observe the language of the proviso, "that payments of the instal- 
ments of the appropriation herein made as shall become due to any State 
before the adjournment of the regular session of its legislature " applies, 
certainly, only to such in.stalments as become due before the final adjourn- 
ment. The idea seems to be to give the legislature the full time before it 
adjourns to accept the provisions of the bill or not; but it is plain to my 
mind that only such payments as become due before the adjournment of 
the legislature can be accepted by the governor of the State. 



LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMP- 
SHIRE. 



An Act for the Reception of a Grant of Land by Congress, and to Create a 
Fund for the Promotion of Education in Agriculture and the Mechanic 
Arts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court 
Convened: 
Section 1. The State of New Hampshire hereby accepts the grant made 
to it by Congress, according to the provisions of an act donating public 
lands to the several States and Territories, which may provide colleges 
for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved July 2, 1862, 
and the governor is hereby authorized and instructed to give due notice 
thereof to the secretary of the interior, or other proper officer of the gov- 
ernment of the United States. 

Sec. 2. The governor is hereby authorized and instructed to receive by 
himself or his order, from the secretary of the interior, or any other officer 
authorized to issue the same, all the land scrip to which this State may be 
entitled by the provisions of the before mentioned act of Congress. 

Sec. 3. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council, 
is hereby authorized and instructed to appoint a commissioner, who^e 
duty it shall be to take charge of the scrip received by this state, and to 
sell and transfer the same on terms to be approved by the governor and 
council; provided, that no scrip shall be transferred and delivered to any 
purchaser thereof until the same shall have been fully paid for, and said 
commissioner .shall pay the moneys so received to the treasurer of the 
State. Said commissioner shall give a bond with sufficient sureties, in the 
penal sum of twenty-flve thousand dollars, to be approved by the governor 
and council, that he will faithfully perform the duties of his office, and 
shall render full and accurate returns to them at the end of every ; ix 
months, or oftener, if required to do so by them, of his proceedings under 
this act. The compensation of said commissioner shall be fixed by the 
governor and council, and the governor is hereby authorized to draw Lis 
warrants on the treasury for the same, and for all other necessary ex- 
penses arising out of the management and sale of said scrip. 

Sec. 4. The treasurer shall hold all the moneys received for the sale of 
said scrip and shall invest the same in accordance with the provisions of 
the fourth section of the before mentioned act of Congress. The money 
so invested shall constitute a separate and perpetual fund, to be entitled, 
" The fund for the promotion of education in agriculture and the mechanic 
arts," which shall be appropriated and the interest used in such manner 
as the Legislature shall prescribe, and in accordance with the aforesaid 
act of Congress, and with which a special office and bank account shall be 
kept, so that the moneys shall not be intei-mingled with ordinary funds of 
the State; and of the state and condition of said fund, the treasurer shall 
make an annual report to the Legislature. 

Sec. 5. The governor, with the advice and consent of the council, is 
hereby authorized and instructed to appoint a committee consisting of 



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ten persons, one from eai^h county, who, from their profession and pur- 
suits, may in their judgment he best qualified for the duty, who shall, after 
the fullest imiuiry and consultation, prepare a scheme for the establish- 
ment of a college for education in agriculture and the mechanic arts, and 
make a printed report thereon to the Legislature at its next June session. 
The compensation of said committee for their labor and expenses shall be 
determined by the governor and council, and the governor is hereby 
authorized to draw his warrants on the treasury for the same, on receiv- 
ing their report. 

Sec. 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 

[Appkoved July 9, 1863.] 

An Act to incorporate the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the 

Mechanic Arts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court 

convened: 

Section 1. That a college is herebj^ established, incorporated, and made 
a body politic and corporate, by the name of the New Hampshire College 
of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, whose leading object shall be, with- 
out excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military 
tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture 
and the mechanic arts, in conformity to an act of Congress, entitled "An 
act donating land to the several States and Territories which may provide 
colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, approved 
July 2, 1862," and by that name maj- sue and be sued, prosecute and defend 
to final judgment and execution, and shall be vested with all the powers 
and privileges and be subject to all the liabilities incident to corporations 
of a similar nature. 

Sec 2. The general gove: nment of this college shall be vested in nine 
tru.stees, five of whom shall be appointed, one from each councillor dis- 
trict, and commissioned by the governor, with the advice of the council, 
and four by the trustees of Dartmouth College, and be so classified and 
commissioned that the oflices of three tru.stees shall become vacant 
annually. 

Sec 3. The tru.stees shall appoint a secretary, who shall keep a full and 
fair record of their proceedings, and a treasurer, who shall give bonds to 
the faithful discharge of his duties in such sum as the trustees may 
require; and may receive such compensation for his services as they ma3" 
deem reasonable. They shall also appoint a faculty of instruction, pre- 
scribe their duties, and invest them with such powers, for the immediate 
government and management of the institution, as they may deem most 
conducive to its best interests. 

Sec 4. No trustee shall receive any compensation for his services, but 
expenses reasonably incurred by him shall be paid by the college. 

Sec. 5. The trustees shall make an annual report to the Legislature of 
the financial condition, of the operations and progress of the college, 
recording any improvements and experiments made, with their co.st and 
results, including state, intlustrial, and economical statistics, as may be 
supposed useful, one copy of which shall be tran.smitled by mail, free, to 
all the other colleges which may be endowed under the provisions of the 
act of Congress hertinbefore mentioned, and also one copy to the United 
States secretary of the interior. 



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Sec. 6. The trustees are authorized and empowered to locate and estab- 
lish the college incorporated by this act at Hanover, in this State, in con- 
nection with Dartmouth College, and with that corporation to make all 
necessary contracts in relation to the terms of connection therewith, sub- 
ject to be terminated upon a notice of one j-ear, given at any time after 
fourteen years, and to its furnishing to the College of Agriculture and the 
Mechanic Arts the free use of an experimental farm, of all requisite build- 
ings, of the libraries, laboratories, apparatus, and museums of said Dart- 
mouth College, and for .supplj^ing such instruction, in addition to that 
furnished by its professors and teachers, as the best interests of its stu- 
dents may require; and also as to any legacy said Dartmouth College may 
receive from the estate of the late David Culver. The said trustees are 
also authorized and directed to furnish, so far as may be practicable, free 
tuition to indigent students of the college, and to make provision for the 
delivery of tree lectures in different parts of the State upon subjects per- 
taining to agriculture and the mechanic arts. 

Sec 7. All funds derived from the sale of the land scrip issued to the 
State of New Hampshire by the United States, in pursuance of the act of 
Congress hereinbefore mentioned, shall be invested in registered bonds of 
the State of New Hampshire, or of the United States, which shall be deliv- 
ered to the state treasurer, who shall have the custody of the same, and 
pay over the income thereof, as it may accrue, to the treasurer of the Col- 
lege of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 

Sec 8. His Excellency the Governor may call the fir.st meeting of the 
trustees by sending to each a written or printed notice of the time and 
place of holding the same ten days before the day of meeting. 

Sec 9. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 

AUSTIN F. PIKE, 
Siieaker if the House of Representatives. 
DANIEL BARNARD, 

President of the Senate. 

[Approved July 7, 1866.] 

FREDERICK SMYTH, 

Governor. 

Joint Resolution accepting the Provisions of the Act of Congress approved 
March 2, 1887, and providing for the Establishment of Experiment 
Stations in connection with Colleges. 

Legislative Assent. 

Whereas, The Congress of the United States at its last previous session 
passed an act approved March 2, 1887, and entitled "An act to establish 
agricultural experiment .stations in connection with the colleges estab- 
lished in the several states under the provisions of an act approved July 2, 
1862, and of the acts supplementary thereto;" and 

Whereas, The grants of monej's authorized by said act are made sub- 
ject to the legislative as.sent of the said states and territories to the pur- 
poses of said grant; therefore be it 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court con- 
vened: 

That the legislative assent of this state be and hereby is given to the 
purposes of said grants by acts of Congress. 

[Approved August 4, 1887.] 



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An Act KMVing legislative assent to the Purpose of the Grants of Money 
made under the act of congress approved August 30, 1890, for the 
Benefit of the College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 

Be it enacted by the Soiale and House of Representatives in General 
Cotirt convened: 

Section 1. That the legislature of said state of New Hampshire hereby 
gives its assent to the purpose of, and accepts for the benefit of the New 
Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, the grants of > 

money authorized by act of congress, approved August 30, 1890, for the \ 

further endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agri- 
culture and the mechanic arts and "to be applied only to instruction in 
agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various 
branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with 
special reference to their applications in the industries of life and the > 

facilities for such instruction," as provided in said act of congress. 

Sec 2. That the treasurer of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture 
and the Mechanic Arts is hereby designated and authorized to receive all 
grants of money made to this .state under the provisions of said act of 
congress. 

Sec 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. I 

[Approved February 13, 1891.] t 

An Act to accept the Provisions of the Thompson Will, and to Provide for 
the present Disposition of the Funds. 

Whereas, Benjamin Thompson, late of Durham, in this .state, died Jan- 
uary 30, 1890, leaving a will and codicils thereto, which have been proved, 
approved, and allowed by the probate court of the county of Strafford, bj' 
which he devised a large share of his property to the .state of New 
Hampshire, in trust, for the establishment and maintenance of a school or 
college, to be located on his "Warner farm,'' in said Durham, wherein 
there shall be thoroughly taught, both in the schoolroom and in the field, 
the theory and practice of agriculture and other sciences connected there- 
with, and wherein there may be taught such other arts and sciences as may 
be necessarj' to enable the state to fully avail it.self of the donation of land 
made by the act of the congress of the United States, approved July 2, 18fi2, 
entitled, "An act donating land to the several .states and territories which 
may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic 
arts," and. 

Whereas, Said bequest is made subject to certain provisos, conditions, 
and limitations, set forth in the will and the codicils thereto, to which 
reference is made fur the particulars thereof; and, 

Whereas, By one of said conditions it is provided that said bequest 
shall become null and void if the state does not accept the trust within two 
years from the time of the decease of said Thompson; now, therefore, 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rejyresentatives in General 
Court convened: 

Section 1. That the State of New Hampshire does hereby gratefully 
accept said bequest, subject to the provisos, conditions, and limitations set 
forth in said will, as modified by the codicils thereto, and, in consideration 
thereof, does hereby promise to execute said trust in accordance with the 
terms of said will. 

Sec 2. The State, in compliance with the reiiuirements of said will and 



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codicils, promises and guarantees to appropriate and does hereby appro- 
priate, annually, for the term of twenty years from and after said Thomp- 
son's death, sucdi sum as will paj' a net annual compound interest of four 
per cent, per annum upon the amount of the appraised value of the estate 
bequeathed and devised to the State as aforesaid, aside from the real estate 
situated in said Durham, after deducting therefrom the legacies given by 
the codicils to said will, and does hereby authorize and direct the state 
treasurer to credit said sums to the trust fund; as provided in the fourth 
section of this chapter. 

Sec. 3. The State, in further compliance with the requirements of said will 
and codicils, promises and guarantees to appropriate, and does hereby 
appropriate, annually, for the term of t\vent3' years from and after said 
Thompson's death, the sum of three thousand dollars, and such further 
sum as will pay a net annual compound interest of four per cent, per annum 
upon said annual appropriations from the dates when they severally become 
a part of the trust fund until the expiration of said term of twenty years; 
and does hereby authorize and direct the state treasurer to credit said 
sums to the trust fund, as provided in the following section. 

Sec. 4. The state treasurer, upon receipt of the estate devised to it by said 
will and codicils, shall open two accounts, in a book provided for the pur- 
pose, as follows: He shall open one account with " The Benjamin Thomp- 
son Trust Fund," and shall credit therein to said fund, under date of Jan- 
uary 30, 1891, the amount of the appraised value of the estate received by the 
State, by virtue of said Thompson's will, together with a sum equal to four 
per cent, upon said appraised value (not including the real estate situated 
in said Darham), and on the thirtieth daj' of January in each year there- 
after, until and including January, 1910, excepting when such day falls on 
Sunday, and in such cases on the day preceding, he shall credit to said 
account a sum equal to four per cent, upon the total amount of said trust 
fund, excepting the appraised value of the real estate in said Durham, 
after the credits of the preceding year have been made. He shall open the 
other account with " The Benjamin Thompson State Trust Fund," and 
shall credit therein to said fund, under date of January 30, 1891, the sum of 
three thousand dollars, together with a sum equal to four per cent, upon 
said sum of three thousand dollars, and on the thirtieth day of January in 
each year thereafter, until and including January, 1910, excepting when 
such day falls on Sunday, and in such cases on the day preceding, he shall 
credit to said account a sum equal to four per cent, upon the total atnount 
of said trust fund after the credits of the preceding year have been made. 

Sec 5. The accounts so made shall represent the amount of the trust 
funds in the possession of the State; and the state guarantees to preser. e 
them intact and unimf)aired until they shall become available for opening 
and maintaining said school or college, and then to administer them as re- 
quired by said will. 

Sec. 6. The state treasurer is hereby authorized to receive from the execu- 
tors of said will the money, notes, bonds, stocks, and evidences of debt 
coming to the State by virtue of the will, and to give proper discharges 
therefor in the name of the State. 

Sec 7. If any notes, bonds, stocks, or evidences of debt shall come to the 
state treasurer from said executors as a part of said estate, he may, with 
the approval of the governor and council, convert the same into money, — 
selling the stocks and bonds by auction at the Boston stock exchange, or 
such other place in Boston as property of that kind is usually sold. 



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Sec. 8. All notes, bonds, stocks, and other evidences of debt coming 
into the possession of the treasurer, and not converted into money as afore- 
said, shall be transferred to the State and be carefullj' preserved by the 
treasurer. The governor and council may authorize any person to vote 
upon any of such stocks at meetings of stockholders of the corporations to 
which the stocrks appertain, and may authorize a sale and transfer thereof 
whenever they deem it to be for the interest of the State. 

Sec. 9. The governor and council are authorized to sell and convey anj- 
real estate coming to the State by virtue of the said will, which the State 
has power to sell, in such manner and at such time as they shall think for 
the interest of the State, and may make and execute in the name of the 
State proper conveyances thereof, upon payment of the consideration 
therefor to the state treasurer. 

Sec 10. All money received from the sources aforesaid shall be used as 
soon as practicable after its receipt in paying and retiring outstanding 
imlebtedness of tlie State; and the state treasurer shall keep an itemized 
and true account of all money and securities of any kind so received, and 
of the disposition made of the same and of the proceeds thereof, and shall 
give a full account thereof in his annual reports, and shall state in each 
annual report the exact condition of said funds. 

Sec. 11. The board of agriculture is hereby authorized and directed in 
behalf of the State to receive possession of the real estate in Durham com- 
ing to the State by virtue of said will, and to care for, control, and manage 
It until it is needed for the uses of the school or college to be established 
as provided in the will. 

Sec 12. The board shall make report of their doings in respect to such 
real estate in their annual reports. 

Sec 13. In case the State shall desire to establish said school or college 
at any time before the expiration of twenty years from the time of the 
decease of the said Thompson, it shall, before using any of either of the 
funds aforesaid, raise and set apart such sums of money as will make said 
funds equal in amount to what said funds would become if accumulated 
daring twenty years; and having thus raised and set apart such sums of 
money, the State shall thereafter be relieved from the obligation of appro- 
priating annually for the balance of the said term of twenty years the said 
sum of three thousand dollars, and guaranteeing the net annual compound 
interest of four per cent, thereon; and the State shall also be thereafter re- 
lieved from the oliligation to provide for or guarantee any interest upon 
the amou t of the appraised value of said estate, as hereinbefore provided. 

Sec 14. The governor and council are authorized, in behalf of the State, 
to make and enter into such further stipulatifins with the executors of said 
will and to give .such further guarantees as the executors shall require to 
secure the objects intended bj- said Thompson to be secured by his said 
will, and codicils, and to atttx the name and seal of the State thereto, and to 
do all other acts that may become necessary to secure the rights of the 
State under said will. 

Sec 1.5. The said will and codicils shall be recorded in the office of the 
secretary of state. 

Sec 16. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pass- 
age. 

[Approved March 5, 1891.] 



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An Act providing for the removal of the New Hampshire College of Agri- 
culture and the Mechanic Arts from Hanover to Durham, and for 
other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court 
convened: 

Section 1. The trustees of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture 
and the Mechanic Arts, located at Hanover, in this state, are hereby in- 
structed and reciuired to terminate the location and agreement made and 
concluded on the 7th day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, be- 
tween the said New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 
Arts and Dartmouth College, by giving one year's notice of such termina- 
tion, in writing, to the trustees of Dartmouth College as soon as practicable 
after the time when this act shall take effect, in accordance with the terms 
of said agreement and of the act of incorporation of said New Hampshire 
College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 

Sec. 2. Upon the termination of the location and agreement aforesaid, 
the said New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and 
the Experiment Station connected therewith, shall be removed from Han- 
over to and located upon the " Warner farm," so called, of the late Benja- 
min Thompson, in the town of Durham, devised by the said Thompson to 
the State of New Hampshire bj' his last will and testament. 

Sec. 3. The trustees of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and 
the Mechanic Arts are hereby authorized and directed to sell, at public or 
private sale, the real estate, with the buildings thereon, acquired by them 
by the deed of John Conant, dated September 16, 1870, and recorded in the 
Grafton County registry of deeds, book 321:, page 87, and all other real 
estate owued by said college in the town of Hanover, reserving the right 
to occupy the same until the removal of said college as hereinbefore pro- 
vided, and to invest the proceeds of such sales, so far as the same shall be 
derived from the sale of the land conveyed to said college by said Conant. 
ill accordance with the terms expressed in his said deed, and the balance 
of said proceeds in aid of the erection and furnishing of buildings for the 
use of said college upon said Warner farm. 

Sec. 4. Upon the termination of the location and agreement aforesaid, 
the State shall and it does hereby relinquish to the trustees of Dartmouth 
College all claim to the building known as Culver Hall, erected at Hanover 
in cooperation Vvith the trustees of Dartmouth College, under the pro- 
visions and authority of section 6 of an act approved Jul 9, 1869, entitled 
"An act to promote the interests of the New Hampshire College of Agri- 
culture and the Mechanic Arts," and thereupon the said trustees of Dart- 
mouth College are hereby requested to refund to the State the sum of 
fifteen thousand dollars appropriated by the act aforesaid in aid of the erec- 
tion and furnishing of said Culver Hall. The said sum of fifteen thousand 
dollars, when the same shall be refunded to the State, shall be and is here- 
by appropriated in aid of the erection and furnishing of the buildings 
required for the use of said college upon said Warner farm. 

Sec. 5. The general government of said College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts is vested in a board of thirteen trustees, and all vacancies 
hereafter occurring in said board shall be filled as follows: The governor 
of the State and the president of said college shall be tru.stees ex officio. 
The alumni of said college may elect one trustee in such manner as said 
board may prescribe. He shall be a resident of the State and his term of 



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office shall be three years. All other trustees shall be appointed by the 
governor with the advice of the council, one at least from each councillor 
district, and so classified aud commissioned that the oflice of three trus- 
tees shall become vacant annually. Not more than five of the trustees 
appointed bj- the governor and council shall belong to the same political 
party, and at least seven of them shall be practical farmers. Seven mem- 
bers shall constitute a (luorum for doing business, and not less than seven 
atfirmative votes shall be rtHjuired to elect a president of said college. 

Sec. 6. The sum of one hundred th<jusand dollars is hereby appropriated 
for the removal of said college from Hanover to Durham, and the erection 
and maintenance of suitable buildings for the purposes of said college, 
and the treasurer of the State is hereby authorized, under the direction of 
the governor and council, to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness in 
the name and iu behalf of the State, for the whole or any part of said sum, 
in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as are provided in 
the act approved March 19, 1891, entitled "An act to provide for re-fund- 
ing maturing bonds and authorizing a temporary loan," and said Ijonds or 
certificates of indebtedness issued by authority of said act, and those 
issued by authority of this act, are hereby consolidated into one series, 
and the governor is authorized to draw his warrant on the treasurer for 
said sum from time to time as the same shall be needed, and the same shall 
be paid to the treasurer of said College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 
Arts, and expended under the direction of the trustees of said college. 

Sec. 7. Section 11 of the act approved March 5, 1891, entitled "An act to 
accept the provisions of the Thompson will, and to provide for the present 
disposition of the funds," is hereljy amended by striking out the words 
"The board of agriculture is," and inserting in the place thereof the 
words, " The trustees of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and 
the Mechanic Arts are," so that said section, as amended, shall read: 

" Sec. 11. The trustees of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and 
the Mechanic Arts are herebj' authorized and directed in behalf of the 
State to receive possession of the real estate in Durham coming to the 
State by virtue of said will, and to care for, control, and manage it until it 
is needed for the uses of the school or college to be established as pro- 
vided in the will." 

Sec 8. This act .shall take effect and be in force from and after the day 
on which the estate devised and bequeathed to the State by the said Ben- 
jamin Thompson shall be turned over to and become the property of the 
State. The state treasurer is hereby required to notify the trustees of said 
College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, in writing, of the reception 
of said estate immediately after it shall l)e turned over to the State as 
aforesaid. 

Sec 9. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby 
repealed. 

[Approved April 10, 1891.] 

An Act providing for the completion of the New Hampshire College of 
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in Durham and for other purposes. 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatices in General Court 
convened: 

Section 1. The sum of thirty-five thousan<l dollars is hereby appropri- 
ated for completing and furnishing the buildings of the New Hampshire 



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College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in Durham, and for other 
purposes of said college, and the governor is authorized to draw his war- 
rant on the treasurer for said sum, from time to time, as the same shall be 
needed, and the same shall be paid to the treasurer of said College of 
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and expended under the direction of 
the trustees. 

Sec. 2. To provide the funds appropriated by this act, and to reimburse 
the state treasury for the amount appropriated by chapter 52 of the Pam- 
phlet Laws of 1891, the state treasurer is hereby authorized to issue, under 
the direction of the governor and council, bonds or certificates of indebt- 
edness, in the name and in behalf of the state, to an amount not excee ling 
the sum of one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, and the same 
shall be deemed a pledge of the faith and credit of the state. 

Sec. 3. Said bonds or certificates shall be dated July 1, 1893, and made 
payable in twenty years at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent, 
per annum, payable semi-annually, on the first days of Januarj' and July of 
each year; such bonds to have interest warrants or coupons attached 
thereto; said bonds and coupons to be signed by the state treasurer, and 
made payable at such bank in Boston as shall be designated by the gov- 
ernor and council. 

Sec. 4. The treasurer shall keep a record of all bonds disposed of by him, 
which shall contain the name of the person to whom any bond maj' be sold, 
the number thereof, the amount received therefor, and the date when the 
bond shall become due. 

Sec 5. The Benjamin Thompson state trust fund, established in pursu- 
ance of the provisions of section 4, chapter 12 of the Pamphlet Laws of 1891, 
and the requirements of the will of the late Benjamin Thompson, with all 
additions and accumulations prior to and including the thirteenth daj- of 
January, 1910, are hereby appropriated for the paj'ment of the issue of 
bonds authorized by this act, provided, that oq the last named date the 
buildings erected in accordance with the provisions of chapter 52 of the 
Pamphlet Laws of 1891, and this act, shall be in such condition as to meet 
the requirements of Benjamin Thompson's will. 

Sec. 6. The trustees shall elect three of their board, who shall have the 
sole control of expending the appropriation, and shall complete the build- 
ings and grade the grounds for which this appropriation is made, and 
make a detailed report of their expenditure to the governor, which report 
shall be published. 

[Approved April 1, 1893.] 



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PAMPHLET LAWS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1891, 

CHAPTER 11.— THE STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 



Section 

1. Agricultural college e.stablished 

"and located. 

2. It.s object.s defined 



Section 

8. Trustee.s to make contracts with 

Dartmouth College, etc. 

9. Tru.stee.s to make report. 



3. Governmei t; trustees, how ap- ] 10. Trust funds derived from land 



pointed 

i. Term of ottlce; vacancies, how- 
tilled. 

5. Trustees to receive no compen- 

sation. 

6. Secretary, treasurer, how ap- 

pointed. 

7. Faculty, how appointed. 



.scrip, provisions concerning. 

11. Funds of institution, investment 

of. 

12. $3,000 annuallj- appropriated for 

college. 

13. This chapter not to repeal an 

act for removal «t agricul- 
tural college, etc. 



Section 1. The state agricultural college, located at Hanover, is a cor- 
poration by the name of The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and 
the Mechanic Arts. 

Sec. 2. The leading object of the college is, without excluding other sci- 
entific and classical studies and including military tactics, to teach such 
branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, 
in conformity to an act of congress entitled "An act donating- land to the 
several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of 
agriculture and the mechanic art.s," approved July 2, 1862. 

Sec. 3. The general government of the college is vested in thirteen trus- 
tees, of whom the governor shall be one, ex officio. The governor, with 
advice of the council, shall appoint .seven of the trustees, one at least of 
whom shall be selected from each councillor district, and two from the 
practical farmers of the .state. Five of said trustees shall be appointed by 
the trustees of Dartmouth College. 

.Sec. 4. The tru.stees shall be so commissioned that the offices of four 
shall become vacant each year. Anj^ vacancy occurring shall be filled by 
the authority which made the original appointment. 

Sec 5. The trustees shall receive no compensation for their services, but 
expenses reasonably incurred by them shall be paid by the college. 

Sec 6. The trustees shall choose a secretary, who shall be sworn and 
shall keep a record of their proceedings, and a treasurer who shall 
give a bond satisfactory to the trustees for the faithful discharge of his 
duties. The treasurer shall receive such compensation as the trustees 
may determine. 

Sec 7. The trustees shall appoint a faculty of instruction for said col- 
lege, prescribe their duties, and invest them with such powers for the 
immediate government and management of the institution as they may 
deem conducive to its best interests. They shall furnish free tuition to 
indigent students in said college, so far as practicable. 

Sec. 8. The trustees are authorized to make contract with Dartmouth 
College, relative to the connection of the New Hampshire College of Agri- 
culture and the ."Mechanic .\rts with said college, the provision of l)uil<l- 
iugs, library, lal)oratory, museums, apparatus, an experimental farm, ami 
instruction for the use of the college of agriculture; but all contracts shall 



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contain a provision that they may be terminated by either party upon giv- 
ing notice to the other party of a desire for such termination, one year, at 
least, before it is to take phice. 

Sec. 9. The trustees shall file with the secretary of state, on or before the 
first day of November, annually, a report of the operations, progress, and 
financial condition of the college. They shall include in the report an ac- 
count of such improvements and experiments made, with their costs and 
results, and such state industrial and economical statistics as may be sup- 
posed useful. One copy thereof shall be transmitted to each college 
endowed under the aforesaid act of congress, and one copy to the secre- 
tary of the interior. 

Sec. 10. The funds derived from th ^ sale of land scrip of the United 
States, and now in the possession of the state, shall be held by it as a trust 
fund for the benefit of the college of agriculture and the mechanic arts 
until otherwise ordered by the legislature; and the state shall pay to the 
treasurer of the college, semi-annually, interest on the fund at the rate of 
.sis per cent, per annum. 

Sec 11. The trustees, with the consent and approval of the governor and 
council, except as is provided in the preceding section, may make such 
changes from time to time in the investment of the funds of said institu- 
tion as its interests may in their judgment require. 

Sec. 12. The sum of three thousand dollars is appropriated annually to 
the college of agriculture and the mechanic arts, to be annually expended 
in providing free tuition for students in said college who are residents 
of the state, and in paying the general expenses of the college, in such 
manner as the trustees may direct. Said sum shall be drawn from the treas- 
ury, in semi-annual payments, from any moneys not otherwise appropri- 
ated. 

Sec 13. Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed as repeal- 
ing any of the provisions of an act entitled "An act providing for the 
removal of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic 
Arts from Hanover to Durham, and for other purposes," approved April 
10, 1891. 

Section 18 of Chapter S, Pnblic Statutes of 1891. 

The principal of each college, academj% seminary, or other institution of 
learning incorporated by the laws of this state shall annually and before 
the first day of November of each year forward to the state librarian for 
the state library two copies, and to the New Hampshire Historical Society 
two copies, of each printed catalogue of its officers and students and 
courses of studies published during the year ending on that date. 

Section 9 of Chapter 1'2, Public Statutes of 1891. 
He [Secretary of Board of Agriculture] shall collect samples of fertilizers 
sold in this state, and any other articles which the interests of agriculture 
may require, and submit them to the College of Agriculture and the Me- 
chanic Arts for chemical analysis. 

Section 11 of Chapter 89, Public Statutes of 1891. 
Any school district may contract with an academy, seminary, or other 
literary institution located within its limits or in its immediate vicinity, for 
furnishing instruction to its scholars, and the school money may be used 
to carry the contract into effect. 



BENJAMIN THOMPSON'S WILL. 



In the Name of God, Amen. 

I, Benjamin Thompson, of Durham, in the county of Strafford and State 
of New Hampshire, farmer, l:eing- in good health, and of a sound and per- 
fect mind and memory, but aware of the uncertainty of this life, do make, 
publish, and declare this my last will and testament, and herein dispose of 
all my worldly estate in manner following, to wit: 

1st. I order and direct my executors herein named, to pay all my just 
debts and funeral charges as soon as may be after my decease. 

2d. I give, devise, and bequeath all my estate, real, personal, and 
mixed, of which I may die seized and possessed, wherever situate, to my 
native State of New Hampshire forever, in trust, subject, however, to the 
provisos, conditions, and limitations hereinafter mentioned and expressed 
concerning the same. 

The object of this devise being to promote the cause of agriculture, by 
establishing at the expiration of twenty years from the time of my decease 
an agricultural school, to be located on mj' Warner farm, so called, and 
situated in said Durham, wherein shall be thoroughly taught, both in the 
schoolroom and in the field, the theory and practice of that most useful 
and honoraljle calling. The said State is to have and to hold the estate 
above devised, upon the express condition that saiil State shall guarantee 
a net annual compound interest of five per cent, upon the amount of the 
appraised value thereof for the term of twenty years; after which time the 
whole amount of principal and interest thus compounded is to constitute a 
fund, the principal of which said State shall guarantee forever to preserve; 
and the net annual income thereof is to be expended for maintaining and 
c.mtinuing said school, and improving said farm and other lands herein 
devised, situate in said Durham. 

Believing that said fund will be insufficient to erect the necessary build- 
ings and furnish the same, to stock said farm, procure the needful appara- 
tus, to commence a library, and sustain said school usefully and honor- 
ably; and believing that such an institution rightfully conducted and sus- 
tained would confer honor on the whole State, and greatly advance and 
improve its agriculture, the leading interest of the State; and knowing no 
l>etter way of arousing the attention of the citizens of said State to the 
necessity of acquiring .such knowledge in this country and in Europe, as 
may be useful for rightly managing said school, — I propose and make it a 
condition of this bequest that said State of New Hampshire shall raise and 
appropriate, by law, annually, for the term of twenty years, the sum of 
three thousand dollars, which would be less than one cent a year for each 
inhabitant of the State; and also upon the further condition that said State 
shall guarantee a net annual compound interest of five per cent, on the 
twenty sums of three thousand dollars each, thus required to he raised; 
and at the expiration of twenty years from the time of my decease, the 
principal and interest thus compounded is to constitute a fund, out of 
which the amount necessary to erect suitable buildings and to furnish the 
same, to stock said farm, procure ajtparatus, and commence a library, 
shall l)e expenrled; and the interest of the Slate fund thus reduced, and 
net annual income of the fund constituted according to the express terms 



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and ct)nditions of the bequests which I have hereinbefore made, shall be 
expended under the direction and supervision of said State, for the pur- 
pose of maintaining and continuing said school, and improving said farm 
and all other lands situate in said Durham; and as the fund last named is 
partly composed of my real estate, — my meaning- is, that the net annual 
income of all my real estate herein bequeathed is also to be expended at 
the same time, in the same manner, and tor the same purpose above set 
forth; and it is made a further condition of this bequest, that no part of 
said Warner farm and other lands hei'ein devised, situate in said Durham, 
■sliall ever be sold, conveyed, leased, or alienated by said State of New- 
Hampshire, or diverted from the purpose above set forth, of establishing, 
t ndowing, and continuing said state agricultural school. 

If the state of New Hampshire does not acce^jt said trust upon the terms 
and conditions herein set forth, within two years from the time of mj' 
■decease, or, accepting the same, shall fail to complj- with the terms and 
conditions thereof, then, and in such case, this devise to said slate shall 
beeonv an i be null and void. 

3d. If the State of New Hampshire does not accept said trust upon the 
conditions herein set forth, within two years from the time of m3' decease, 
or if the foregoing devise to said state shall become null and void by 
reason of the failure of said State to comply with the terms and conditions 
thereof, then, and in such case, I give, devise, and bequeath all of my said 
estate to tlie State of Massachusetts, upon the same terms and conditions as 
herein required of the State of New Hampshire; excepting thar forbidding 
the sale of my land in Durham, and requiring said school to be located in 
said Durham, and limiting the time of accepting said trust to two years 
from the time of my decease; the State of Massachusetts being at liberty to 
sell all my lands and to locate the school wherever its legislature shall 
deem it most for the advantage of said State of Massachusetts; and said 
State of Massachusetts may have four years from the time of my decease, 
within which to aceept said trust upon the terms and conditions herein set 
forth thus modified. 

4th. If the State which accepts the trust upon the conditions herein set 
forth should desire to establish said school at any time before the expira- 
tion of twenty years from the time of my decease, then, and in such case, 
my will is that said State maj- thus do, provided said State shall, before 
using anj- of either of the funds herein set forth, raise and set apart such 
sums of money as will make said funds equal in amount to what said funds 
would become, if accumulated during twentj- j-ears according to the terms 
and conditions herein set forth. 

I hope that the citizens of my native town and county, and of the county 
of Rockingham, will manifest such liberality as will induce my native State 
to accept said trust upon the conditions herein set forth. 

It might seem presumptuous in me to attempt to devise any plan for the 
ordering and management of such an institution as is contemplated by this 
will, and which will probably go into operation at a time so remote, when 
doubtless there will be great advancement in the knowledge of agricul- 
ture; so I leave this dutj- to the wisdom of the State, through its legislature, 
only claiming to make the suggestions following: Morality, order, in- 
dustrj-, and economy should be constantly taught and practiced by all the 
teachers and by all the scholars. Teachers, scholars, and laborers should 
be required to meet each morning in the chapel for the reading of the 
Scriptures and for prayer. 



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Xo>ichnl;ir should he admitted to the school under sixteen years of age. 

Every scholar should he required to lahor on the land four hours of each 
working' day, when practicable. 

Horticulture should receive its due sliar^ of attention. 

The chemistry of agriculture, and physiology, and other science.s, so far 
as. they are connected with agriculture, should be taught; but no profe.s8or 
should be .selected unless he is also distinguished for his knowledge of 
scientific and practical agriculture. 

The theories taught should, as far as practicable, be te.sted by experi- 
ments on tlie farm; and all experiments, together with the cost and results 
thereof, should be published and sold to the citizens of the State an 1 the 
United States, at the cost of publication. 

There should he one vacation each year from December first to Axjri! first. 

I would also suggest the propriety of applying to the Congress of the 
United States for a grant of land in aid of this object; and in other ways to 
seek contributions to promote the usefulness and extend the advantages 
of said school; and I believe that when the vast benefit to be derived from 
such teaching shall be practically demonstrated, similar schools will be 
multiplied in every state of this great confederacy, their unbounded agri- 
cultural resources will be developed, the national wealth and power in- 
creased, the happiness of man, the honor of God, and the love of Christ 
promoted, and the way be in some degree prepared for the time when " He 
shall judge the nations and shall rebuke many people, and they shall beat 
their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; na- 
tion shall not lift up .sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any 
more." 

La.stly, I do hereby nominate and appoint William P. Frost and Stephen 
Demeritt of said Durham, and John S. Woodman and Henry W. Pickering 
of the city of Boston and State of Massachusetts, executors of this my last 
will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by me made. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth 
day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight liundred and 
fifty-six. 

(Signed) BENJAMIN THOMPSON, [l. s.] 

Signed, .sealed, published, and declared by the said Benjamin Thompson, 
as and for his last will and testament, in presence of us, who, at his 
request, in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed 
our names as witnesses thereto. 

(Signed) J. A. RICHARDSON. 
J. B. SMITH. 
JOS. W. COE. 
Codicil. 

Where.\s, I, Benjamin Thompson, of the town of Durham, in the State 
of New Hampshire, having made and duly executed my last will and testa- 
ment in writing, an<l hearing date the twelfth (12th) day of February, in the 
year of our Lf)rd one thousancl eight hundred and fifty-six. 

And Where.\s, Since the date of my said will the Congress of the United 
States, having passed an act making a grant of lands to the various States 
of the Union, to endow colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the 
mechanic arts, entitled, "An act donating land to the several states and 
territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture an.l 
the mechanic arts." Approved July 2, 1862. 



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And Whereas, The said act provi<le.s a fund foi" the same purposes in 
part as dues my said last will and testament, and my desire is to add to 
and increase said fund for the purposes named. 

Novi-, Therefore, I do hereby declare this present writing to be as a 
codicil to mj" said will, and direct the same to be annexed thereto, and be 
taken as a part thereof. 

My object being mainly to promote the improvement of agriculture, 
though willing that the college to be established should also provide for 
the mechanic arts, it is my will that the institution to be established by the 
State, which shall by due acceptance of the terms upon which my bequest 
is made and agreement therewith, shall be called and designated College 
of Agriculture and the INIechanic Arts, with the name of the State which 
shall become entitled under my said will to the property bequeathed 
therein, prefixed, as, for instance. The New Hampshire College of Agri- 
culture and the Mechanic Arts, if that shall be the wish of the State; and, 
that in addition to the in truction to be given therein, as provided by my 
said will, there shall be taught only such other arts or sciences as may be 
neces.sary to enable said State to fully avail itself of said donation of lands 
by the government in good faith, which two branches of ius ruction shall 
be the leading objects of said institution or college. 

If both the said States named in my will shall fail to accept my bequest 
within the time limited therein, then, and in that case, I give, devise, and 
bequeath all my said estate to the State of Michigan, upon the same trusts, 
terms, and conditions as I have in my will required of the State of Massa- 
chusetts; and I give to my executors authority in the mean time to enter 
upon and take charge of, and have the care of my estate, and to hold and 
preserve the same until one or the o her of the said states shall have ac- 
cepted the terms of this will and become entitled to the bequests herein 
made. 

And it shall be the duty of my executors, herein named, whenever this 
will shall become operative, to communicate the same to the governors of 
New Hampshire, Massachu etts, and Michigan, in the order in which each 
shall become entitled to accept the said term- and bequests, and as soon 
as each shall become entitled by the terms hereof. 

And I authorize anl direct my said executors, and give them full power 
to make and enter into such stipulations, and require such guarantees of 
the State Vv-hich shall accept as will secure the objects which are intended 
to be secured by my said will and this codicil, before my said e.state shall 
b ' turned over to and Jiecome the property of said State. 

Item. I hereby modify m.v bequest made in my said will, so far as the fol- 
lowing legacies are concerned, which will be and are herebj' reserved from 
the said general bequest of my estate, viz.: I give twelve (12) shares in 
the Boston & Maine Railroad Company to the Congregational Society in 
Durham, in trust, and upon the condition that the said shares shall forever 
be kept as a fund by said society and the annual income thereof be used 
for the improvement of sacred music in said society. 

I also give ten (10) shares in the Suffolk National Bank, Boston, to Lu- 
CETTA M. Davis, mj- housekeeper, as a testimonial of my respect and 
esteem for her character, and of the consideration in which I hold her ser- 
vices in my house; and in case the said Lucetta M. Davis continues to be 
my housekeeper at the time of my decease, then, and in that case, I give 
to the said Lucetta M. Davis, in addition thereto ten (10) shares more in 
the same bank. 



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I give also one hundred dollars to Asa A. Tofts, cashier of the Strafford 
National Bank, Dover, as a slight testimonial of my regard and esteem. 

I give two hundred dollars to Benjamin D. Hill, of Durham, New Hamp- 
shire. 

I snnul the appointment of executors heretofore named, and all former 
codicils, and appoint *he following named persons to be the executors of 
my said will, with the usual authority as such, viz.; James F. Joy, of De- 
troit, ."Michigan, and Joshua B. Smith, of Durham, New Hamp.shirc. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto .«et my hand and .seal this twenty- 
flr.st (21.';t) day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- 
dred and seventy-four. 

(Signed) BENJAMIN THOMPSON, [l. s.] 

Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said Benjamin Thompson, 
as a codicil to his last will and testament, in presence of us, who, at his 
request, in his presence and in presence of each other, have subscribed 
our names'a-» witnesses thereto. 

(Signed) WILLIAM P. SYLVESTER. 
FRANK A. J. SYLVESTER. 
LEVI CRAM. 
Second Codicil. 

Having required in n-.y will that the State which should become entitled 
to the bequest therein made should guarantee a net annual compound 
interest of five (5) per cent, upon the appraised value of my Warner farm, 
so calleil, and all my other lands and buildings situated in Durham, and 
mentioned in my said will and testament, for the term of twenty (20) years 
after mj- decease, as one of the conditions upon which it should become 
entitled, and being douljtful whether this condition may not constitute an 
obstacle in the way of the acceptance of my said bequests by my native 
State, and possibly the others in succession. Therefore it is my declared 
will that it shall be competent for mj- executors named in and by my sr.id 
will, or any codicil thereto, to waive the said condition, in case that shall 
be the sole obstacle in the acceptance of the said bequests, but with the 
hope that the waiver of said condition may not be found necessary, and 
with the declared will that it shall stand as a condition, unless by them 
waived for the purpose of carrying into effect the object and purpose of 
my said last will and testament'. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth 
day of March, A. D. 1875. 

(Signed) BENJAMIN THOMPSON, [l. s.] 

Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said Benjamin Thompson, 
as a second codicil to his last will and testament, in presence of us, who, 
at his request, in his presence and in presence of each other, have sub- 
scribed our names as witnesses thereto. 

(Signed) LEVI CRAM. 

JOHN McDANIEL. 
JAMES F. GRIFFIN. 
Third Codicil. 

I, Benjamin Thompson, do make this, the third codicil, to become a part 
of my last will an<l testament, in view of the lower rates of interest which 
now prevail than at the time my said will and former codicils were made, 
and do provide and declare that the rate of interest provided in mj' said 



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will, to be compounded for twenty years, shall be reduced to four per cent, 
compounded for the same length of time, in case mj^ bequests and the 
terms of my ^ aid will be accepted and complied with by either of my leg- 
atees. 

And I further waive, in favor of my native State of New Hampshire, all 
the interest on the valuation of my real esta e, situated in the town of Dur- 
ham, in case it shall accept the bequests made in my said will, and upon 
the terms made in it and the codicils. 

In addition to the bequests made in my will and former codicils, to my 
housekeeper, L. M. Davis, I give and bequeath to her all my household 
furniture and wearing apparel, which I value at about a thousand dollars, 
as a testimony both of my regard and of my appreciation of her long and 
faithful services. 

I hereby constitute and appoint as one of the executors of my said will, 
instead of J. B. Smith, whose appointment I revoke and annul, John W. B. 
Thompson, to act as such with J. F. Joy, giving them all the usual author- 
ity in such cases, as if they had been named originally in my said will as 
the executors Thereof. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentj'- 
ilrst day of January, A. D. 1882. 

(Signed) BENJAMIN THOMPSON, [l. s.] 

Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said Benjamin Thompson, 
as a codicil to his last will and testament, in presence of us, who, at his 
request, in his presence and in the presence of each other, have subscribed 
our names as witnesses thereto. 

(Signed) JOHN McDANIEL. 
ALVIN JACKSON. 
JASPER R. McDANIEL. 



UNITEJ3 STATES 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

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OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 

A. W. Harris, Director. 

A. C. True, Assistant Director and Editor of tlie departments 
of Botany, Field Crops, and Horticulture. 

W. O. Atwater, Special Editor for Foreign Work. 

E. W. Allen, Editor of departments of Chemistry, Foods and 
Animal Production, and Dairying. 

W. H. Beal, Editor of departments of Fertilizers, Soils, and 
Indexes. 

Walter H. Evans, Editor of departments of Seeds. Weeds, 
and Diseases of Plants. 

S. L. So.MMERS, Lilirarian and Record Clerk. 



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THE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 

Alabama — Auburn: College Station; W. L. Broun, president of 

board of direction. Uniontown: Canebrake Station; B. M. 

Duggar. assistant director in charge. 
Arizona — Tucson : F. A. Gulley, director. 
Arkansas — Fayeitevillc: R. L. Bennett, director. 
California — Berkeley: E. W. Hilgard, director. 
Colorado — Fort Collins: Walter J. Quick, director. 
Connecticut — New Haven: State Station; S. W. Johnson, 

director. Storrs : Storrs School Station; W. O. Atwater, 

director. 
Delaware — N'eivark: A. T. Neale, director. 
Florida — Lake City: J. P. DePass, director. 
Georgia — Experiment : R. J. Redding, director. 
Idaho — Moscoio: R. Milliken, director. 
Illinois — Champaign: G. E. Morrow, president of board of 

direction. 
Indiana — La Fayette : C. S. Plumb, director. 
Iowa — Ames: James Wilson, director. 

Kansas — Manhattan: G. T. Fairchild, chairman of council. 
Kentucky — Lexington: M. A. Scovell, director. 
Louisiana — Audubon Park, New Orleans: Sugar Station. Baton 

Rouge: State Station. Calhoun: North Louisiana Station; 

W. C. Stubbs, director. 
Maine — Orono: W. H. Jordan, director. 
Maryland — College Park: R. H. Miller, director. 
Massachusetts — Amherst: State Station; C. A. Goessmann, 

director. Amherst: Hatch Station; H. H. Goodell, director. 
Michigan — Agricultural College: O. Clute, director. 
Minnesota — St. Attthony Park: C. D. Smith, director. 
Mississippi — Agricultural College: S. M. Tracy, director. 
Missouri — Columbia: E. D. Porter, director. 
Nebraska — Lincoln : C. L. Ingersoll, director. 
Nevada — Reno: S. A. Jones, director. 
New Hampshire — Durham: G. H. Whitcher, director. 



New Jersey — Ne-io Bninsioick: State and College stations; 

James Neilson, acting director. 
New iMexico — Las Critces : H. Hadley, director. 
New York — Geneva: State Station ; P. Collier, director. Ithaca: 

Cornell University Station; I. P. Roberts, director. 
North Carolina — Raleigh: H. B. Battle, director. 
North Dakota — Fargo: H. E. Stockbridge, director. 
Ohio — Wooster : C. E. Thorne, director. 
Oklahoma — Stillwater: J. C. Xeal, director. 
Oregon — Corvallis: J. M. Bloss, director. 
Pennsylvania — State College: H. P. Armsby, director. 
Rhode Island — Kingston: C. O. Flagg, director. 
South Carolina — Fort Hill: H. A. Strode, director. 
South Dakota — Brookings: L. Foster, director. 
Tennessee — Knoxville: F. Lamson-Scribner, director. 
Texa.s — College Station : G. W. Curtis, director. 
Utah — Logan: J. W. Sanborn, director. 
Vermont — Burlington : W. VV. Cooke, director. 
Virginia — Blacksbnrg: J. AI. McBryde, director. 
Washington — Pullman: G. Lilley, director. 
West Virginia — Morgatitoiun : J. A. Myers, director. 
Wisconsin — Madison : W. A. Henry, director. 
Wyoming — Laramie: A. A. Johnson, director. 



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LIST OF AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS AND COL- 
LEGES IN THE UNITED STATES, WITH 
LOCATION AND NAMES OF PRESIDENTS, 

1S92. 

Alabama — Agricultural and Mechanical College, Alabama Poly- 
technic Institute. 
Preside/it, William Leroy Broun, M. A., LL. D. ^liibnrn. 

Arizona — College of Agriculture of the University of Arizona. 

Chancellor, M. P. Freeman. Tucson. 

Arkansas — Arkansas Industrial University. 

PresiiUiit, E. H. Murfee, M. A., LL. D. Fayetievilk- 

Branch Normal College of Arkansas Industrial University. 
Principal, J. C. Corbin, M. A. Pine Blnff. 

California — College of Agriculture of the University of California. 
Acting President, M. Kellogg, M. A. Berkely. 

Colorado — The State Agricultural College of Colorado. 

President, Alston Ellis, J\L A., Ph. D., LL. D. Fort Collins. 

Connecticut — Sheffield Scientitic School of Yale University. 
President, Timothy Dwight, D. D., LL. D. New Haven. 

Storrs Agricultural School. 
Principal, B. F. Koons, Ph. D. Mansfield. 

Delaware — Delaware College. 

President, A. N. Raub, Ph. D. Newark. 

Florida — Florida State Agricultural and Alechanical College. 
President, F. L. Kern, AL A. Lake City. 

Florida State Normal School. 
President, T. DeS. Tucker, M. A. TallaJiassee. 

Georgia — Georgia State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 
President, H. C. White, Ph. D. Athens. 

North Georgia Agricultural College. 
Chancellor of University, Wm. E. Boggs, D. D. Daldonega. 

Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College. 
President, J. C. Lynes, Ph. D. Millcdgeville . 

South Georgia College. 
Chancellor of University, W. E. Boggs, D. D. Thoniasvillc. 

Southwest Georgia Agricultural College. 
President, L. W. Haskell. Culbcrt. 



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Illinois — College of Agriculture of the University of Illinois. 

Acting Regent— T . J. Bunill, M. A., Ph. D. ChaJiipaign. 

Indiana — School of Agriculture, Horticulture, and \'eterinary Sci- 
ence of Purdue University. 
President, J. H. Smart, M. A., LL. D. La Fayette. 

Iowa — Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 

President, W. M. Beardshear, M. A., LL. D. Ames. 

Kansas — Kansas State Agricultural College. 

President, George T. Fairchild, M. A. Manhattan. 

Kentucky — Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. 
President, J. K. Patterson, Ph. D. Lexington. 

State Normal School. 
Principal, J. H. Jackson, M. A. P'rankfort. 

Louisiana — Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Me- 
chanical College. 
President, J. W. Nicholson, M. A. Baton Rouge. 

Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. 
President, H. A. Hill. New Orleans. 

Maine — Maine State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. 
President, M. C. Fernald, M. A. Orono. 

M.A.RYLAND — Maryland Agricultural College. 

President, H. E. Alvord, C. E. College Park. 

Massachusetts — Massachusetts Agricultural College. 

President, H. H. Goodell, M. A., LL. D. Amherst. 

Bussey Institution of Harvard University. 
Instructor in P'artning, Thomas Motley, M. A. Jamaica Plain. 
Michigan — Michigan Agricultural College. 

President, O. Clute, M.S. Agricultural College. 

Minnesota — College of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota. 

President, Cyrus Northup, LL. D. St. Antliony Park. 

State School of Agriculture of the University of Minnesota. 
Principal, W. W. Pendergast. St. Anthony Park. 

Mississippi — Agricultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi. 
President, S. D. Lee. Agricultural College. 

Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. 
President, J. H. Burrus, M. A. Rodney. 

•Missouri — College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Uni- 
versity of Missouri. 
President, R. H. Jesse, LL. D. Columbia. 



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Nebraska — Industrial College of the University of Nebraska. 

Chancellor, James H. Cantield, AI. A. Lincoln. 

Nevada — School of Agriculture of the Nevada State University. 

President, S. A. Jones, M. A., Ph. D. Re7io. 

New Hampshire — New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the 
Mechanic Arts. 

President, Lyman D. Stevens, A. B. Durham. 

New Jersey — Rutgers Scientific School. 

President, Austin Scott, Ph. U., LL. D. New Brunswick. 

New Mexico — New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
Arts. 

President, H. Hadley, M. A. Las Criices. 

New York — College of Agriculture of Cornell University. 

President, Jacob G. Schurman, B. A., D. Sc, LL. D. Ithaca. 
North Carolina — The North Carolina College of Agriculture and 
Mechanic Arts. 

President, Alexander 0. Holladay. Raleigh. 

North Dakota — North Dakota Agricultural College. 

President, H. E. Stockbridge, Ph. D. Fargo. 

Ohio — Ohio State University. 

President, W. H. Scott, M. A., LL. D. Cdunibns. 

Oklahoma — Agricultural and Mechanical College of Oklahoma. 

President, R. J. Barker. Stillwater . 

Oregon — Oregon State Agricultural College. 

President, J. B. Bloss, M. A. Corvallis. 

Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania State College. 

President, George W. Atherton, LL. D. State College. 

Rhode Island — Brown Universit}'. 

President, E. B. Andrews, D. D., LL. D. Providence. 

Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. 

Principal, J. H. Washburn, Ph. D. Kingston. 

South Carolina — Clemson Agricultural College (not yet open). 

Fort Hill. 
Claffin University, College of Agriculture and Mechanics' 
Institute. 

President, L. M. Dunton. M. A., D. D. Orangeburg. 

South Dakota — South Dakota Agricultural College. 

President, Lewis McLouth. M.A.. Ph.D. Brookitii^s. 



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Tennessee — State Agricultural and Mechanical College of the 
University of Tennessee. 

Freside7it, C. W. Dabney, Jr., Ph. D., LL. D. Knp.willc. 

Texas — State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. 

President, L. S. Ross. College Station. 

Utah — Agricultural College of Utah. 

President, J. W. Sanborn. f3. S. Logan. 

Vermont — University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. 

President, M. H. Buckham, D. D. Ihirlington. 

Virginia — Virginia Agricultural and Meclianical College. 

President, J. M. McBryde, Ph. D., LL. D. Black ^Inn-'-:. 

Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. 

Principal, S. C. Armstrong, LL. D. Hampton. 

Washington — Washington Agricultural College and .School of 
Science. 

President, George Lille\-, Ph. D., LL. D. Pulhuan. 

West Virginia — West Virginia University. 

President, E. M. Turner, LL. D. Morgantoiun, 

W^ISCONSIN — College of Agricultin-e of the University of Wisconsin. , 

President, T. C. Chamberlin. Ph.D.. LL. D. Madison. 

Wyoming — College of Agriculture of the L'niversity of Wyoming. 

President, A. A. Johnson, lAL A., D. D. Laramie. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Laws OK THK Trustees, .... 

t \\ S OK IHE UNn'ED STATES — 

Donating lands; act of 1862, 

Extension of time ; act of 1 366, . 
Establishing Experiment Station; act of 1S87, 

Appropriations for same, 188S-1893, 
Morrill College Aid act, 1890, 
Concerning detail of army ofiicers. 

Officers on retired list, 

Engineers from the navy, 
ncerning duty free importations. 
Alcohol free of tax, 
Post-Office Regulations, 
Treasury Rulings, 
Iaws ok-.the State ok New Hampshire — 

New Hampshire acceptance of United States Land 

Grant, etc., 1863, . 
Act of Incorporation, r866, .... 

Legislative Assent to Hatch Bill, rSSy, 
Legislative Assent to Morrill Bill, 1891, 
Act in Acceptance of Thompson Will, 1891, 
Act providing for removal to Durham, iSgr, 
Act providing for completion of College in Durham 

and other purposes, ..... 
Public Statutes,. The State Agricultural College, 
Public Statutes, 1891, Reports of Colleges, 
Public Statutes, Fertilizer Analyses, . 
Public Statutes, Literary Contracts, . 
lienjamin Thompson's Will, .... 
List of Experiment Stations, United States, 
List of Agricultural Colleges, United States, 



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